As a job candidate, you're likely to encounter interview questions designed to assess your critical thinking skills. Employers highly value these skills because they demonstrate your ability to ...

I t has been almost 70 years since the term “artificial intelligence” was coined at a 1956 Dartmouth College summer workshop. The conference was convened by the mathematician John McCarthy, who ...

Are you tackling a new and difficult problem at work? Recently promoted and trying to both understand your new role and bring a fresh perspective? Or are you new to the workforce and seeking ways to ...

In a world full of facts, fakes, and feelings, critical thinking is what keeps us from mistaking popularity for truth.

The College Board recently approved changes in the SAT I, the college-admissions test taken by more than 2 million high school students every year, to better measure reading, writing and math that ...

Think you’ve got what it takes to tackle some seriously tricky riddles? Put your brain to the test with our Riddles Quiz: Mind Tricks That Will Test Your Critical Thinking! Only the sharpest minds can ...

In my last post, I discussed the nature of engaging the critical thinking (CT) process and made mention of individuals who draw a conclusion and wind up being correct. But, just because they’re right, ...

The critical mind, a central tenet of Western thought since antiquity, has always been constructed as a resistance to the obvious and to authority, a means of questioning the nature of things and ...