Writer's Block: Tolerance 101?
Apr. 29th, 2010 08:40 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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Critical thinking, particularly applying to things like scams, claims of paranormal abilities, and so on. This is a skill which would serve *ANYONE* well, no matter what their profession was -- from physics professor to homemaker to athlete.
This would include abilities to dissect claims to see what the actual capabilities being claimed are, ability to do BOTE (back of the envelope) calculations to "sanity check" figures given to you, understanding orders of magnitude of difference, techniques of "cold reading" and other common scam tricks, and so on.
Critical thinking, particularly applying to things like scams, claims of paranormal abilities, and so on. This is a skill which would serve *ANYONE* well, no matter what their profession was -- from physics professor to homemaker to athlete.
This would include abilities to dissect claims to see what the actual capabilities being claimed are, ability to do BOTE (back of the envelope) calculations to "sanity check" figures given to you, understanding orders of magnitude of difference, techniques of "cold reading" and other common scam tricks, and so on.
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Date: 2010-04-29 01:52 pm (UTC)The ability to think critically appears to be trained out of many managers - assuming they had it to begin with. The large amount of money spent on poorly conceived projects spawned from the lies of Big Vendor salesmen constantly annoys me. And most of it would not be spent if the people these things get sold to would just spend 5 minutes doing a sanity check (as opposed to 18 months trying to get the answer they want).