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Wisc-Online is Moving — But Not Going Away

In December 2025, the Wisc-Online website will be retired. But don’t worry—the Wisc-Online brand and a collection of your favorite learning resources will live on at WisTech Open, Wisconsin’s new hub for open educational resources.

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Barriers to Critical Thinking: Faulty Logic or Perception

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Learners examine eight different kinds of faulty logic or perception that interfere with critical thinking. They are superstition, ignorance, clustering illusion, false analogies, gambler’s fallacy, irrelevant comparisons, post hoc fallacy, and slippery slope fallacy. In an interactive exercise, learners identify ways to overcome these barriers.

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