1. Intro
Learn the book Asking the Right Questions: A Guide to Critical Thinking by Neil Browne.
I would use ChatGPT to assist my reading. All the info is generated from ChatGPT, I would ask more detailed question to ChatGPT and examine the answer quality
2. Outline
ChatGPT first gives the outline of the book and summarize each chapter
2.1. Base
- Importance of critical thinking and questioning process
From unknown to known, using current knowledge to get a better answer
- Issue and Conclusion, important step, make the problem more clear
Issue: the central problem
Conclusion: assertion being made about the issue
- Reasons: evidence and facts
Important to evaluate
- Relevance
- Sufficiency
- Accuracy
- Assumption: belief, values and attitude
- often unstated / implicit
- casue different conclusion
- We should try to know the assumption made by author
- Fallacies: common errors that weaken the argument
- ad nominem: attack person
- Apeal to authority
- False dilemma: e.g. only show limited options
- Hasty generalization: based on insufficient evidence
- Slippery slope: argue action would lead to negative consequences without providing evidence
- Straw man: misrepresenting to make it easier to attack
2.2. Tips
- How good is evidence: how to evaluate the quality of evidence
- Source credibility
- Relevance
- Sufficiency
- Timelines
- Consistency
- Use of qualifiers
- Alternative intrerpolation: considering alternative interpretations
- Implications
- How to resolve the conflicts
- Further
3. Takeaway
From this books’ perspective
Issue and conclusion should be made by human
ChatGPT can/can’t provide
Highly relevant knowledge: better than google
Medium sufficiency knowledge: less than google
LACK OF: accuracy(no source provided) timelines (when is source made), consistency (maybe try multiple times),
Common fallacies ChatGPT may occur
False dilemma: only show limited options
Hasty generalization: make conclusion based on insufficient evidence