What I liked about the class/ what I did not

My favorite thing about this class was that we can take this class at our own pace and post the blogs anytime before the due date. Since I was booked with homework and classes, this online critical thinking was good. The blogs we had to do were pretty easy to do and I had no difficulty in doing them. My group project with my other team members was fun. Even though I did not meet with them for the first meetings in person. The last one was a good one where all worked together. We all had fun within the group. We got our stuff done efficient and good for a very good grade. 

There were a few things I did not like about this class. I took an online class in the summer and we meet with the teacher a few times. Face time with the students is important, even though it is an online class. Another was the twelve hour in between posts. If someone forgets to do it they are kind of screwed to get full credit.

Generalize

Generalizing can be two very distinct meanings. The first one is we conclude a claim about a population from a claim by a sample. The next is finding the inductive evidence for the generalization. Generalizing also means in a statement to find the key words to see the sample of the statement to show the inductive evidence in a statement. From personal experiences to a mad up story, generalizing shows that  a group of population to sample from. In theory sampling is done with a research of a group of people. For example if you want to sample how many SJSU students are Engineering majors there are a few ways. We can randomly ask 1000 students what there major is and assume Engineering is the greatest. Or get the info from the department and make a percentage who are from the whole school. Generalizing is good in big groups of people and not small, because there is not enough info to generalize what you are trying to research.

What I learned

This class was very helpful to me to learn different types of arguments ad how to approach them. Critical thinking has more in depth about what there is in it. What I thought was most interesting to me was the different types of fallacies to use in an in direct way or not. I did not know how to tell a good argument to a bad one without the help of fallacies. Since they range from Drawing the line - the Strawman, reading the different types will help me define a statement if it is true or false. Another theory I will use is repairing an argument because I put random words that make a statement to be plausible. By adding more depth like so, this, for, given that, theses words can improve my argument to make it more valid. Overall I have learned so much in this class that will help me in life now.