Critical Thinking Consider the Verdict

Critical Thinking: Consider the Verdict offers an entertaining yet rigorous study of critical thinking. The text is packed with fascinating real-life exercises from trial arguments and jury deliberations, political debates and advertising campaigns, social controversies and scientific studies. Readers learn to analyze, understand, and construct the sound arguments that are vital to our lives as citizens and consumers, jurors and voters. The author also explains how to detect argument errors and deceptions. The Fourth Edition features: extensive new material throughout an entirely new chapter on thinking critically with statistics dozens of exercises from criminal and civil trials, Supreme Court decisions, and contemporary social debates.Waller, Bruce N. is the author of 'Critical Thinking Consider the Verdict', published 2000 under ISBN 9780130896032 and ISBN 0130896039.