Evidence and credibility
Introduction: Critical thinking teaches the skills needed to analyse successfully and evaluate arguments. Arguments are a reason or reasons that must support a conclusion. These ones are designed to persuade and convince the reader that your argument is true. In order to do this, we would need and evidence that supports the argument. However, in some cases evidence is not totally convincing and a judgement about the credibility of the evidence is needed. Credible means believable. If we know that the argument is credible, then we might accept it. Sources of evidence: Evidence is always the information we use to support any idea in an argument. This evidence comes from a source, which could be an eyewitness, a newspaper report, a scientific journal, and many more. It is very important always to assess the credibility of the source, because if not the source is useless. Example: Evidence: In 2003, there were 306,000 marriages and 167,000 divorces in the United Kingdom.