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The Exxon Valdez Oil Spill - Exercise
Critical Thinking or Not?
The controller controlling then wasn’t a certified pilot
The pilot and all the crew were sleeping while accident took
place
The captain wasn’t found on the deck, he was sleeping
below too.
The Exxon failed to up-to-date and maintain equipment
The umber of crew members was less to handle the large
ship.
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What critical thinking
could have done…
Safety and wellbeing of all person
involved.
Environmental safety and its
wellbeing.
Financial involvement like cost of
Exxon, cost for cleaning up, and the
cost for recovering damages.
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What is meant by Free
Will?
Being able to chose one best
alternatives from several possibilities
Choices are guided by our thoughts,
motives, and beliefs
Option to think
Choosing freely
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Truth Explained
Ability of being in accordance
with the reality or fact
Any idea or judgment that is
accepted as true or is true
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Knowledge?
A collective set of Information, Facts,
and Experience
Plato defined it as “Justified True Belief”
Knowledge helps us making rational
decisions in critical thinking
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Opinion - Definition
Any judgment or belief that spurs from
ground that is not sufficient enough to
be certain
Can turn to fact when backed up by
logics or evidence
Personal belief
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Obstacles in Thinking
Critically
Stereotyping
Resistance to Change
Face Saving
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How to Overcome
Hindrances?
First examine what is the
impression regarding problems &
issues
Review all the Information before
coming to a conclusion or decision
Put aside any negative impressions
Use you logics
Being honest with oneself
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My Personal Hindrance
and Ways For
Overcoming It
Face Saving
First examining the
impressions
Being Honest With
Myself
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So, What Was the Message?
My Perception of the
Message
As distorted it may
look like from a
distance, hard to
read that it is TWO
advertisements on
the same board,
one can easily
imagine what I
would have
perceived.
The Reality of the
Message
The advertisements
from two different
stores put together
on a same board form
distorted message to
an observer.
They are separate
advertisements
having nothing to do
with each other.
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Conclusion
Use creative and critical Thinking
for better outcomes or results
Our thoughts are guided by the
truth, our knowledge, our free will
and our opinions
Our perceptions is sometimes far
from the reality
Overcoming hindrances is
something we should be working
on for our improvement and
betterment
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References
All images provided by Google.com (2011)
Ruggiero, V. R. (2009). The art of thinking: A
guide to critical and creative thought (9th ed.).
New York, NY: Pearson Longman.
Sitter, D (2005) Perception is real, Reality is not.
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