Whenever people say we need "critical thinking", they always overlook that being able to workout plausibility in a claim is 100 percent a mathematical problem and really, to the non math literate people, "critical thinking" just means they want you to agree with them on politics and not actually be educated and wise enough to do things like calculate optimal budget spending, model physics and engineering to understand what inventions are and are not worth investing research into, and use statistics to predict return values of investing in ETF's vs gambling at a casino.