Question

Critical thinking requires people to analyze their assumptions. Which of the following examples of beliefs illustrates that the speaker's assumption has not been analyzed?
A. "How can you be a professor of psychology if you don't know the basics of the subject?"
B. "What do you mean you don't know why I'm getting these headaches-you're a doctor, so find the problem and fix it!"
C. "Men are less emotional than women-it is part of a man's basic nature to be logical rather than emotional."
D. "I don't want to see that movie-my roommate said that it was so boring she left the theater before it ended."

Answer 1

Answer:

C. "Men are less emotional than women-it is part of a man's basic nature to be logical rather than emotional."

Explanation:

The sentence selected above is a conclusion constructed without any precedent. The speaker of the sentence has no justification for concluding this and does not present any supporting details that show that he had some reasoning and analysis of premises to arrive at this resolution. In other words, we can say that the sentence above was not spoken by someone who dominates critical thinking, but was spoken by a thought that creates conclusions through guesswork and random beliefs.