I believe you have this backwards. Analytical thinking is the analysis and categorization of data through a systematic scientific approach. An example would be the Wuhan Virus world wide response. The data was collected and shared with the entire world scientific and medical communities. The data indicates that there is a highly lethal pandemic spreading around the world. The logical analytic response is to develop a vaccine to protect people that have yet to be exposed by innoculating them with a weakened virus so that their immune systems would develop the antibodies needed to fight the virus when they eventually came into contact with it. This is all logical and reasonable. An exercise in Critical Thinking leads one to look at the source of the data and the means of its collection. To question the motives of the data collectors, the motives of the institutions that are pushing the vaccine and the people who have issued the response. The reason why we are all here is Critical thinking. We looked past the data being provided and questioned the processes and motives behind those championing and promulgating the response. There are many brilliant scientific minds that missed the Critical Thinking test, but passed the Analytical thinking test. This is how many high IQ people were duped into receiving the various vax injections. Even some of us with lower IQ scores were able to identify the patterns of deceit and took a larger view to determine that this was suspicious enough to speak out. Some call this "street smart", but it is ultimately Critical thinking.
You just explained "analytical thinking" as thinking using the processes of analysis, and "critical thinking" as determining the veracity of information for yourself (not relying on others to make that determination for you), which is exactly what I said.
I have no idea why you opened with "I believe you have this backwards" since we seem to be in agreement.
Analytical thinking is a process of analyzing data. It doesn't encompass the origin of the data or question the data integrity, I believe Critical thinking does that. If we are in agreement, then I apologize for misunderstanding your post.
I believe you have this backwards. Analytical thinking is the analysis and categorization of data through a systematic scientific approach. An example would be the Wuhan Virus world wide response. The data was collected and shared with the entire world scientific and medical communities. The data indicates that there is a highly lethal pandemic spreading around the world. The logical analytic response is to develop a vaccine to protect people that have yet to be exposed by innoculating them with a weakened virus so that their immune systems would develop the antibodies needed to fight the virus when they eventually came into contact with it. This is all logical and reasonable. An exercise in Critical Thinking leads one to look at the source of the data and the means of its collection. To question the motives of the data collectors, the motives of the institutions that are pushing the vaccine and the people who have issued the response. The reason why we are all here is Critical thinking. We looked past the data being provided and questioned the processes and motives behind those championing and promulgating the response. There are many brilliant scientific minds that missed the Critical Thinking test, but passed the Analytical thinking test. This is how many high IQ people were duped into receiving the various vax injections. Even some of us with lower IQ scores were able to identify the patterns of deceit and took a larger view to determine that this was suspicious enough to speak out. Some call this "street smart", but it is ultimately Critical thinking.
You just explained "analytical thinking" as thinking using the processes of analysis, and "critical thinking" as determining the veracity of information for yourself (not relying on others to make that determination for you), which is exactly what I said.
I have no idea why you opened with "I believe you have this backwards" since we seem to be in agreement.
Analytical thinking is a process of analyzing data. It doesn't encompass the origin of the data or question the data integrity, I believe Critical thinking does that. If we are in agreement, then I apologize for misunderstanding your post.