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Critical Thinking

Your team uses ChatGPT every day. The cost of one unchecked error keeps rising. This training teaches how to tell fact from opinion and verify information — through business cases, not syllogisms.

Critical thinking training: 8 cognitive biases, 9 argumentation errors, AI for fact-checking. 6 hours of practice on business cases.

5
concepts of truth
8
cognitive biases
9
argumentation errors
AI
for fact-checking

Why critical thinking became a business skill

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"Grok, is that true?" — delegating truth to AI

Users on X (Twitter) ask "Grok, is that true?" roughly every 5 minutes. Your employees do the same with ChatGPT. Delegating information verification to AI isn't critical thinking — it's the absence of it. The more your team uses AI, the higher the cost of one unchecked error.

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Gut-feel decisions cost more than you think

The team picks a strategy because "everyone agrees." Six months later — zero results. The post-mortem reveals: the data was there, but it was interpreted through confirmation bias and anchoring. Decisions made on "intuition" look rational in hindsight — but they cost the most.

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Employees don't verify AI-generated information

Employees copy-paste ChatGPT answers into reports without verification, present AI hallucinations as facts, and build arguments on unchecked data. The cost of one unverified error multiplies across everyone who uses that report for their own decisions.

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8 cognitive biases: recognize and neutralize

  • From stereotyping to the "curse of knowledge" — through real business cases
  • Debunking Dunning-Kruger: why the famous graph is a myth
  • Each participant identifies their own decision-making patterns
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5 concepts of truth — how to tell fact from opinion

  • 5 concepts of truth: correspondence, authority-based, conventional, pragmatic, coherence
  • Fact vs opinion: how to tell them apart in negotiations and reports
  • Verifiability and falsifiability — two keys to scientific knowledge
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9 argumentation errors

  • Post Hoc, Ad Hominem, Straw Man, Slippery Slope — plus 5 more types
  • How to recognize manipulation in negotiations, presentations, and media
  • Practice: participants analyze argumentation errors in real texts
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AI as a verification tool, not a source of truth

  • Practice: ChatGPT, Perplexity for fact-checking and cross-validation
  • Stress-testing your own hypotheses using AI
  • Not "how to use AI" — but "how to stop AI from fooling you"

You've Seen the Dunning-Kruger Graph? It's Wrong.

Dunning-Kruger graph — a popular but inaccurate interpretation of the original study
This graph is a myth. The original study showed something different.

The famous graph — "Mount Stupid," "Valley of Despair," "Plateau of Wisdom" — has nothing to do with the original 1999 Dunning-Kruger study. The study found: novices significantly overestimate their abilities, experts slightly underestimate theirs. But the viral image turned this into a curve the study never showed. This is the best illustration of why critical thinking training matters.

5 Concepts of Truth

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Correspondence
Matches reality
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Authority-based
Confirmed by authority
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Conventional
Result of agreement
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Pragmatic
What is useful
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Coherence
Non-contradictory system

In the training, participants learn to identify which concept of truth they and their counterparts rely on. This changes the quality of negotiations, feedback, and decision-making. Part of the training covers using AI tools for fact-checking and cross-validating information.

Cognitive Bias Map

Cognitive Bias Codex — over 180 known biases mapped
Out of 180+ known biases, we cover the 8 most common in business contexts. Click to enlarge.

Cognitive biases in business: why intuition fails

Research shows up to 60% of business decisions are influenced by cognitive biases — confirmation bias, anchoring, survivorship bias. Teams lose up to 30% of their effectiveness without even noticing. In this training, we cover the 8 biases most common in business contexts — through real cases, not abstract examples. Each participant learns to recognize their own patterns and apply neutralization frameworks: red team, pre-mortem, Devil's advocate.

Argumentation errors: how to spot manipulation in negotiations

Post Hoc, Ad Hominem, Straw Man, Slippery Slope — these aren't academic terms, they're the daily reality of business negotiations and presentations. In this training, participants analyze the 9 most common fallacies using real texts, negotiations, and media examples — learning not only to detect manipulation but also to build persuasive arguments without logical traps.

Critical thinking in the AI era: how to verify what ChatGPT writes

Research shows 76% of users accept AI outputs without verification, and 68% cannot identify logical fallacies in AI-generated text. The more actively your team uses ChatGPT and other AI tools, the higher the cost of one unchecked error. In this training, we teach how to use AI as a verification tool — cross-validation via Perplexity, hypothesis stress-testing, source checking — instead of delegating it the role of a source of truth.

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Who this training is for

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Team Leaders

Challenge

Employees trust AI without checking, decisions made on gut feeling, mistakes repeat

Solution

Team gains a shared language for decision review and information verification tools

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HR & L&D

Challenge

No critical thinking training for business context — only academic logic and syllogisms

Solution

6 hours of practice on industry cases + skill reinforcement via micro-tasks

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Individual participation

Challenge

You want to spot manipulation, stop falling for misinformation, and make better decisions — but don't know where to start

Solution

Open training: 6 hours of practice in a cross-industry group + personal decision-checking checklist. $50.

Trainer

Vitaly Genarov

Vitaly Genarov

Trainer

Master of Philosophy (epistemology, logic, argumentation). CEO of EdUnit. Delivered over 30 trainings and strategic sessions. University teaching experience.

Training program

1

Critical Thinking Fundamentals

1.5 hours

What CT is and why it matters. 5 concepts of truth. Fact vs opinion. Verifiability and falsifiability. Hypothesis, concept, theory.

2

Cognitive Biases and Heuristics

1.5 hours

8 key biases through business cases: from stereotyping to the "curse of knowledge." Debunking the Dunning-Kruger graph myth. Heuristics: brainstorming, morphological analysis, role-based perspectives.

3

Argumentation Errors + AI

1.5 hours

9 common argumentation errors: Post Hoc, Ad Hominem, Straw Man, and more. AI for fact-checking with ChatGPT and Perplexity. "Grok, is that true?" — why you can't delegate truth.

4

Reflection and Frameworks

1.5 hours

Decision-making frameworks: red team, pre-mortem, Devil's advocate. Practice: analyzing participants' real decisions using red team, pre-mortem, Devil's advocate frameworks. Creating a personal decision-making checklist.

Delivery formats

Corporate Training

Private session for your team. Cases adapted to your industry and real situations.

👥 8-20 people
⏱️ 6 hours
📋 Participant laptops, stable internet, ChatGPT account

Open Training

Mixed group from different companies. Networking and cross-industry experience sharing.

👥 10-20 people
⏱️ 6 hours
📋 Zoom, laptop, ChatGPT account

Pricing

Education & NGO

from $300
≈ €276
  • Training for a group up to 20 people
  • Cases adapted to your context
  • Materials and checklists
  • EdUnit certificate
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Business

from $750
≈ €690
  • Training for a group up to 20 people
  • Deep adaptation to your industry
  • Reinforcement system via EdUnit Bot
  • Materials, checklists, recording
  • Post-training support for 2 weeks
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Individual participation

$50
≈ €46
  • Participation in an open training.
  • Group of 10-20 people.
  • Join the waitlist — we'll notify you of the next date.
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Prices are indicative. Final cost confirmed in contract.

FAQ

How is this different from university critical thinking courses?
All examples are from business: analytics errors, uncritical AI trust, decisions driven by cognitive biases. No formal logic or syllogisms. Plus unique content: 5 concepts of truth, 9 argumentation errors, debunking the Dunning-Kruger myth. Participants leave with tools they can apply on Monday.
What is the format?
6 hours (4 blocks of 1.5 hours each), online or hybrid. Group of 8-20 people. After the workshop — skill reinforcement via micro-tasks in Telegram (when paired with EdUnit Bot). Can be split into two 3-hour days.
What roles is it for?
Anyone who makes data-driven decisions and uses AI at work: managers, analysts, marketers, salespeople, project leads. Especially valuable for teams actively using ChatGPT.
What do participants get after the training?
Decision-checking checklists (red team, pre-mortem, Devil's advocate), data analysis frameworks, AI fact-checking skills, understanding of 8 cognitive biases and 9 argumentation errors. On request — reinforcement system via micro-tasks in Telegram.
Is AI knowledge required?
No. Part of the training covers using AI for information verification — we teach from scratch. If participants already use ChatGPT — even better: we'll analyze their real mistakes.

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