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Practical exercise

Apply all seven thinking tools to one Pakistani news story

This is the capstone for the critical thinking track. You will pick one Pakistani news story from the last seven days, run it through all seven tools you have built (fallacy spotting, source tracing, correlation versus causation, Bayesian updating, argument mapping, expert vetting, and reasoning under uncertainty), and write a 200 word judgment that you would be willing to defend in a room of adults.

60 min·builder
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Now try it

Apply all seven thinking tools to one Pakistani news story

Stretch

Run this same exercise once a month for a year. After twelve judgments, write a one page meta reflection: which judgments aged well, which aged badly, and what those patterns say about your blind spots.

Goes into your portfolio

The doc news-judgment-NN of 200 words with all seven tools applied, signed and dated, plus the original story link and the two additional sources used.