This year we have a new subject called Thinking Skills, were we study Critical Thinking, which is used to analyze arguments (set of reasons which are used to persuade someone and support a conclusion). For arguments to work, we need evidence to support our point of view. All the same, it is important that we always judge the credibility of the evidence. For this, we need to go back to the source form where we took the evidence and use credibility criteria. For example, “neutrality”, which consists of a source which doesn’t take sides and doesn’t manipulate evidence. We can also find the”vested information”, which is the source that gains something from taking a particular side, therefore they may change or not the information. The “bias” consists on favouring a particular side, which reduces the credibility. Then, we can find the ”expertise”, which is evidence highly credible due to the knowledge of a source, who can be doctors, scientists, etc. However, as knowledge changes throu...
