The Critical Reader & Thinker

What's inside

• Fact, opinion or claim, and what the claim actually is
• Claim or evidence, strong evidence or weak evidence
• One example proves nothing, and finding the missing evidence
• Headline versus actual information, and clickbait detective work
• Loaded words, neutral or loaded, positive or negative framing
• Advert or information, 'up to', 'from only' and absolute claims
• What the source knows, who they are, their purpose and audience
• Inference with evidence, and why inference is not guessing
• What is missing, survey bias and who was left out
• Correlation versus cause, and before and after
• Two viewpoints, comparing reports, and can both be true
• Sponsored content, testimonials, photos, cropping, graphs and averages