Sunday, February 3, 2013

Chase Ruesga: Critical Thinking Evaluation


Critical Thinking Evaluation
Throughout this field day assignment I conducted a total of 2 interviews one with a random Moorpark College participant Melissa and another random, my younger sibling Kianna; featuring Mario (the boyfriend) who unknowingly made a special appearance. I realized separately unique characteristics from both interviews. Unfortunately my sister, who was a bit preoccupied the time had to be the furthest away from a critical thinker as you could possibly get. She was busy, I’ll give her that, however that doesn’t take away from the fact that through out her interview she was dismissive and didn’t truly hold down a strong opinion regarding gun control. Contradicting herself a numerous amount of times and unwilling to understand other ideas and contrary beliefs she came off very defensive and impatient basing a lot of her ideas on personal preference and emotion. Giving her an official rating of 3 out of 10, 10 being the highest. On the other hand I have concluded that my first interviewer at Moorpark College Melissa contributed more established attributes of a critical thinker, but I would not categorize her as one. Both participants agreed that 25 was a suitable age to hold carry a weapon, however Melissa was a bit more optimistic about opposing views but still lenient about people owning gun if they were fully informed such as the military or police officers. Overall the greatest thing I took away from this interview is that to be a critical thinker you must know the subject and if not acknowledge it, make a decision about where you stand on the issue, but mostly importantly out of all things combined you must strive to understand and listen.



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