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 …showed first 75 words of 1011 total…

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