Asking the Right Questions

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The habits and attitudes associated with critical thinking are transferable to consumer, medical, legal, and general ethical choices.

When our surgeon says surgery is needed, it can be life sustaining to seek answers to the critical questions encouraged in Asking the Right Questions This popular book helps bridge the gap between simply memorizing or blindly accepting information, and the greater challenge of critical analysing the things we are told and read.

It gives strategies for responding to alternative points of view and will help readers develop a solid foundation for making personal choices about what to accept and what to reject.

It was French philosopher Claude Lévi-Strauss who once said: “The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he is one who asks the right questions.”

And he was right. Asking the right questions is the essence of good science.

Insightful questions can challenge accepted models, and turn the way we think about a concept on its head.

Of course, you still need a curious, inquiring mind to come up with the right answers – but some of the most exciting science discoveries would never have happened, without that initial spark of inspiration from someone asking a really good question.

The sort of question that makes everyone stop, and think “wow, that’s a really good point!”

Asking the Right Questions

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