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== Critical Appraisal == | == Critical Appraisal == | ||
Primarily, the information people consume should be from unbiased sources. The closest and most abundant source we have of this are scientific journal articles which is when the editor of the journal sends it out to other scientists, who provide feedback and recommend whether the paper should be published. The practice only became a requirement by most journals in the 1970s and ’80s. Even then, when read, the reader should have a basic understaning of critical analysis . | |||
Critical appraisal skills should be paramount in the fundamentals of our education. Before we learn anything we need to understand that facts are not [[Binary versus analogue|binary]] in nature. This would allow us to: | Critical appraisal skills should be paramount in the fundamentals of our education. Before we learn anything we need to understand that facts are not [[Binary versus analogue|binary]] in nature. This would allow us to: | ||