Question

Question #7a9ef

Answer 1

Critical thinking is acknowledgement of the possibility that you could be wrong, that you could be mistaken.

Explanation:

And anybody can be wrong. You can be right too, but how do you know you are right?

The scientist (ideally!) realizes (i) that a proposition could be wrong, and (ii) (more likely) he or she could be wrong. Therefore, the scientist (and I am careful to use a gender neutral noun here) devises experiments that rigorously test the proposition that is advanced. An important feature of a scientific hypothesis is thus its so-called `"falsifiability"`. What results would you anticipate in an experiment if your hypothesis is WRONG.

The late Richard Feynmann once proposed that a good scientist is skilled at the art of crap detection. Obviously, the skill can extended beyond science.