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Data-centric specialties are growing fast, giving rise to a new vocabulary. In political science, this quantitative analysis is called political methodology. In history, there is cliometrics, which applies econometrics to history. In literature, stylometry is the study of an author’s writing style, and these days it leans heavily on computing and statistical analysis. Culturomics is the umbrella term used to describe rigorous quantitative inquiries in the social sciences and humanities.

Such biological metaphors seem apt, because much of the research is a quantitative examination of words. Just as genes are the fundamental building blocks of biology, words are the raw material of ideas.

Singer describes critical thinking as the ability to simultaneously comprehend, analyze, and evaluate a line of reasoning, a concept, or a problem relative to one's own perspective and the perspective of others to arrive at deeper understanding.

AP physics class, students use the same deconstruction skills to break down free-response questions, examine the information, and then synthesize it to create diagrams and experiments.