Critical thinking and decision-making go hand in hand. This allows us to evaluate a situation, process the information and determines a course of action. The focus of this paper is to define critical thinking and decision-making. Then discuss a decision-making tool or technique that exists in critical thinking.
Critical thinking, as defined in the multimedia Grolier Encyclopedia CD-Rom, is "the general term given to a wide range of cognitive skills and intellectual dispositions an individual needs to evaluate claims and arguments in everyday situations, to discover and overcome personal pr…