Critical Thinking and Ethics

The course examines the principles, theories and practices that underpin the application of critical thinking within bioscience contexts. Scientists apply critical thinking skills in every aspect of their work from experimental protocols to advanced statistical hypothesis testing and the evaluation of experiments.

They employ a range of tools and methodologies such as Root Cause to efficiently and effectively identify problems and address them. Critical thinking is also vital to the rigorous and accurate use of established statistical models and the logical evaluation of results. Probability distributions, significance testing, confidence limits, regression & correlation and hypothesis testing to evaluate results are explored in the course.