The Critical Thinking Application in Your Text Lists Four Skills

question 160

Essay

The Critical Thinking Application in your text lists four skills that are exhibited by critical thinkers.Identify these four skills and show how they might be used by a woman who was trying to decide whether or NOT to begin hormone therapy once she was past menopause.

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Definitions:

Sample

A portion of a broader demographic picked for the sake of conducting studies, observations, or questionnaires to collect data representative of the larger population.

Nonresponse Error

An error that occurs in survey research when some participants do not respond, potentially biasing the results.

Survey

A method for collecting information and data about a population by asking questions to a sample of that population to extrapolate insights or conclusions about the whole.

Cluster Samples

A sampling technique where the population is divided into groups (clusters) and a random sample of these clusters is selected to represent the whole population.