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Wow critical thinking skills and self awareness were not her strong suit. Bonus: That is your 21st birthday present? WTF!?!

Here buy this one for her Birthday/Xmas/Whatever.

https://www.amazon.com/Critical-Thinking-Skills-Dummies-Martin-ebook/dp/B00UYXHP0G

If this sort of thing interests you I strongly recommend this book. But be careful, the subject material can have a profound, transformative effect on your life and the lives of people around you. It is not for everyone.

If you're getting your "news" from liars and propagandists, you're worse off than if you'd watched no news at all.

You need to learn how to distinguish credible sources from those that aren't.

If you're an anti-vaxxer (AKA moron), then you have not learned even the basics of how to determine what is or isn't a credible source. You'll have to start with a Critical Thinking for Dummies type of guide. That's how lacking you are in even the basics of understanding reality.

Here's a place you might be able to start, if you're not too braindead from stuffing your head with stupid:

https://www.amazon.com/Critical-Thinking-Skills-Dummies-Martin-ebook/dp/B00UYXHP0G

In the meantime, a tip from people who aren't braindead:

The mainstream media is a poor source of information about science and medicine; the best sources are peer-reviewed journals, but you need a reasonably good foundation in those subjects to make sense of the articles You don't have to know the ins and outs of, say, L-protease inhibitors, but you do need to have enough of a core science background to get the gist of the abstracts and conclusions that scientists reached from the EVIDENCE they investigated for those papers.

I am not the brightest person out there, but even I know that science is argued not in the media, but in peer-reviewed journals.

Which would would you prefer I read?

While we are at it, this is what I recommend you read

And preferably this one too

Critical Thinking Skills For Dummies https://www.amazon.in/dp/B00UYXHP0G/ref=cm_sw_r_apan_glt_DZ54EMBS360KYGECYTT8

Read this first. You truly need it.

Cro-magnon.

I doubt you yourself even read the book you've linked me to.

Good on you for recognizing the problem. You're already way ahead of the game. Learning facts, being widely read, and generally knowledgeable are all good things, but it is more important to know HOW to think rather than WHAT to think, and a lot of people get this confused.

I dropped out of High school at 17, because I was a troubled teenager, and I simultaneously have a higher than average IQ along with a learning disability. These always made things difficult for me, academically. Nevertheless, around 30 I started educating myself, and succeeded pretty well, at least on that front.

My advice is to learn critical thinking. Learning critical thinking is a key component of becoming well-educated, whether one joins an official educational institution or not. Learning how to think will result in your understanding more things readily, telling good information from bad, understanding the difference between fact and opinion, recognizing your own areas of ignorance, and will make you less gullible and likely to be used by others for their own ends.

There are those that use the term "critical thinking" as a buzz word, essentially trying to say they possess this and that their opponents do not, the way to tell if this is true is simple. Do they teach critical thinking themselves to their audience, or simply state they have it and others do not?

Learning how to think makes everything else that comes afterwards easier, it's like paving a road before you walk down it. It's not very difficult, but does take practice. Once you understand the basics, it will open up a whole new world to you, because you will see the flaws in so many of the arguments going on around you in daily life. You will be amazed at how common using bad thinking really is. Once you're excellent at it...you'll recognize the flaws in your own thinking, and test your own thinking, often using those same techniques.

Suggested resources:

Critical thinking for Dummies.

David Pakman miniseries on critical thinking. (David Pakman is a political commentator, feel free to ignore this, your views on politics do not matter, and his miniseries isn't political, only instructive, and it is a great introduction.)

The Foundation for Critical Thinking. There is a whole library of resources at this location.

1. Google anecdotal evidence

2. Buy this book:

https://www.amazon.com/Critical-Thinking-Skills-Dummies-Martin-ebook/dp/B00UYXHP0G/ref=nodl_

I was going to say, “Critical Thinking Skills For Dummies” but it already exists.

Sorry, looking at it a different way, it occurs to me that you might not have the "For Dummies" series in your country which might be why you've misunderstood this question. Examples of the "For Dummies" series:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00UYXHP0G

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B007BV1KV4

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07T94F959

...and so on, and so forth.

You can solve that problem by getting <em>Critical Thinking for Dummies</em> out of your local library, or by purchasing it off of Amazon. To paraphrase Tim Minchin, there are, as matter of fact, answers out there, but you've got to be willing to actually get some books and spend a little bit of time actually reading them.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00UYXHP0G/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_tkbAFbY7PWPQG

https://www.amazon.com/Critical-Thinking-Skills-Dummies-Martin-ebook/dp/B00UYXHP0G

Wow, it was only a few seconds.

Likewise. Don't waste your time on woo.