% DRAFT: Re: On critical thinking
% Michael Stone
% February 24, 2013

On 2/24/13, Brian Sniffen <bts@...> wrote:

> <http://www.aft.org/pdfs/americaneducator/summer2007/Crit_Thinking.pdf>
> 
> Maybe this is a reason security works as a second career; domain knowledge
> is necessary?
> 
> But what else are we trying to teach with the security reviews but critical
> thinking?

Some thoughts:

cog-sci "skill" != business "skill"

p. 1: Author?

  http://www.danielwillingham.com/articles.html

 1. Let's turn to James Reason's ["Human Error"][HE] and to [Jens Rasmussen's][Rasmussen] and [[theory of task performance][SRK theory].

  a) "Critical thinking" probably isn't a single skill.
  b) Memory activation is quite dynamic.


p. 2: "mathematically the same", recognition, modeling, ...

theory of reading? a fucking huge subject!

SENSEVAL


p. 3:
  "deep structure" bullshit?
  "overt" ?

p. 4: 
  metacognition + emotions?

p. 5:
  systematic vs. random vs. guided error: bugs in mental procedures & response loops?


p. 6:
  "scientific" thinking: 
    theories-in-use vs. espoused theories
    boyd adaptation
    *any* model of motion is "physics"; there are just lots of bad models

  oh god, philosophy of science + causality... pretty please?

  in modeling based on conditional probability, *not* in conditional probability

p. 7:
  conclusion about need to deploy the right kind of thinking at the right time seems basically right

p. 8:
  it's not just knowledge that's needed; it also helps to have the unconscious
  subsystems helpfully initialized; i.e., to be *inclined* to think critically,
  to be primed, to engineer the environment, ....

[HE]: http://www.amazon.com/Human-Error-James-Reason/dp/0521314194
[Rasmussen]: http://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n50-53982
[SRK theory]: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/00140137408931355