- Dentists are friendly people to talk to.
- Poor oral health, such as gum disease, is linked to other serious health conditions, including heart disease and diabetes.
- It is a good excuse to miss school or work.
- It ensures you have perfectly white teeth like in advertisements.
Category: CRITICAL THINKING
- It allows you to manipulate people easily.
- It is a sign of weakness.
- It is fundamental to building strong social bonds, fostering cooperation, and resolving conflicts peacefully.
- It makes you feel sad all the time.
- It is against the rules.
- It undermines the purpose of education by preventing the student from actually learning the material, leading to a lack of real knowledge and skills.
- The student might get caught and punished.
- Everyone else is doing it.
- Water bills are expensive.
- Treating and pumping water requires significant energy, and a clean, reliable water supply is a finite resource that can be affected by drought and pollution.
- It is a way to punish people.
- Water has no real value.
- It shows a person is weak and cannot handle their own problems.
- It is fashionable to talk about mental health.
- Recognizing a problem and taking proactive steps to address it requires courage, self-awareness, and a commitment to one's well-being.
- Mental health problems will just go away on their own if you ignore them.
- It allows you to become rich quickly.
- It is only for accountants and business people.
- It enables individuals to make informed decisions about saving, investing, and borrowing, leading to greater financial stability and well-being.
- Having a lot of money is the only thing that matters in life.
- Because it is the only way to learn things.
- Because it is a very old method.
- It relies on empirical evidence, logical reasoning, and peer review, creating a self-correcting process that builds upon and refines our understanding of the world.
- Because famous scientists use it.
- It is a way for the government to make money from fines.
- It ensures predictable and orderly flow of traffic, which significantly reduces the risk of accidents, injuries, and fatalities for everyone.
- It makes driving more boring.
- The laws are too complicated to understand.
- They allow one person to always win an argument.
- They provide constructive ways to handle disagreements, which can strengthen relationships and prevent escalation into more serious conflicts.
- They ensure that no one ever disagrees.
- They are only useful for politicians.
- Sugar tastes too sweet.
- All foods containing sugar are bad.
- High sugar consumption is linked to health issues like obesity, type 2 diabetes, and tooth decay.
- Fruits also contain sugar, so they should be avoided.
- It looks impressive on a resume.
- It allows a person to provide immediate and potentially life-saving care to someone who is injured or ill before professional help arrives.
- It is very difficult to learn.
- It guarantees that you can cure any illness.
- It doubles the amount of work to be done.
- It provides a baseline to compare the results of the experimental group against, allowing researchers to determine if the variable being tested actually had an effect.
- It is the group that receives the real treatment.
- It makes the experiment look more complicated and professional.
- It makes the skin oily.
- It contains chemical or physical filters that block or absorb harmful ultraviolet (UV) radiation from the sun, reducing the risk of sunburn and skin cancer.
- It makes you look like you have been to the beach.
- It is only necessary on cloudy days.
- It makes you feel good about yourself.
- It reduces the need for raw materials, saves energy, and decreases the amount of waste sent to landfills, which reduces pollution.
- It is a difficult and time-consuming process.
- It creates jobs for a few people.
- Stress is just a feeling and can be ignored.
- Chronic stress can lead to serious health problems, including high blood pressure, heart disease, and a weakened immune system.
- Everyone experiences stress, so it is normal.
- Stress makes you more productive.
- It makes the hypothesis sound more professional.
- A hypothesis is just a random guess, so it doesn't matter.
- If a hypothesis cannot be tested through experiment or observation, it cannot be proven or disproven, and therefore cannot contribute to scientific knowledge.
- All hypotheses are eventually proven true.
- It makes the planet look more colorful.
- A diverse range of species ensures ecosystem resilience, provides a wider range of resources (like medicines), and helps maintain natural cycles.
- It makes nature documentaries more interesting.
- Some animals are more important than others.
- It is a quiet activity.
- Reading stimulates the brain, improves vocabulary and comprehension, and exposes a person to new ideas and perspectives.
- It helps you fall asleep.
- Books look good on a shelf.
- Water has a refreshing taste.
- Water is vital for numerous bodily functions, including regulating temperature, transporting nutrients, and flushing out waste products.
- It prevents you from feeling hungry.
- Bottled water is a major industry.
