{"id":11796,"date":"2025-04-25T12:04:42","date_gmt":"2025-04-25T12:04:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/youthdemocracycohort.com\/?post_type=glossary&#038;p=11796"},"modified":"2025-07-30T07:53:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T07:53:10","slug":"critical-thinking","status":"publish","type":"glossary","link":"https:\/\/youthdemocracycohort.com\/glossary\/critical-thinking\/","title":{"rendered":"Critical Thinking"},"content":{"rendered":"<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity is-style-wide\">\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Definition:<\/strong> <\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The ability to objectively evaluate and analyze information.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Did you know?<\/strong> <\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>A Stanford study found that over 80% of middle school students could not distinguish between a real news story and a fake one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><em> <em><em><em><em><em><em><em><em><em><em>Stanford History Education Group (2016)<\/em><\/em><\/em><\/em><\/em><\/em><\/em><\/em><\/em><\/em><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ability to objectively evaluate and analyze information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"glossary-categories":[],"glossary-tags":[],"class_list":["post-11796","glossary","type-glossary","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/youthdemocracycohort.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/glossary\/11796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/youthdemocracycohort.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/glossary"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/youthdemocracycohort.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/glossary"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youthdemocracycohort.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/youthdemocracycohort.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/glossary\/11796\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15968,"href":"https:\/\/youthdemocracycohort.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/glossary\/11796\/revisions\/15968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/youthdemocracycohort.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"glossary-categories","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youthdemocracycohort.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/glossary-categories?post=11796"},{"taxonomy":"glossary-tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youthdemocracycohort.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/glossary-tags?post=11796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}