Learning Projects for Critical Thinking

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A set of hands-on projects for developing critical thinking, opening with the 1998 CIA failure to predict India's nuclear tests, which stemmed from unexamined assumptions rather than missing information. It frames critical thinking as learnable skills and presents eight projects: comparative analysis with opposing sources, assumption mapping, fact-checking popular claims, decision autopsy, argument mapping, pre-mortem analysis, steel-manning, and base-rate research, with what research shows about developing critical thinking and common failure modes.

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1. 11 July 2026 · corrected by Emir Baycan

   India's Pokhran-II nuclear tests occurred in May 1998, not 1999.

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   In 1999, a group of CIA analysts failed to predict India's nuclear tests

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   In 1998, a group of CIA analysts failed to predict India's nuclear tests

   Why: Verified live: body content already correctly states 1998 (Pokhran-II). FAQ field contains no mention of India, the nuclear tests, or the year. No further action needed; contribution's fix was already fully applied.

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