The Importance of Critical Thinking and the Project Reasoning Contest.

 

People often do not reason well. Perhaps this is down to our evolutionary history, or perhaps it is simply an outcome of an undisciplined or untrained mind but it is clear that how human beings actually reason often differs from how we ought to reason. We’ve evolved to follow certain heuristics (shorts cuts in reasoning) and these can lead to cognitive biases which negatively impact our reasoning and decision making. Simply being made aware of these cognitive biases and heuristics