The result was that the medieval metaphor of the speculum, emphasizing the mind as the faithful reflection of reality, was replaced by the theater, in which the necessary conventions permitting belief came to bear on the understanding of the data which the mind represented to itself.
In his article on preschool and play, Paul Tough writes that "there are not yet firm experimental data that prove that Tools of the Mind works".
In 1985, the Association of American Colleges pointed out that all students should learn "to reason well, to recognize when reason and evidence are not enough, to discover the legitimacy of intuition, to subject data to the probing analysis of the mind", which emphasized the importance of critical thinking [ 4].
Cognitive: pertaining to an information-processing model of the mind, including data structures (such as concepts and categories) and processes.
While Mel politely agreed with her father that her childhood recollections might be a trick of the mind, the data backs up her impression that Wisconsin winters are milder than they used to be.
Still, even as an algorithm mindlessly implements its procedures – and even as it learns to see new patterns in the data – it reflects the minds of its creators, the motives of its trainers.
But new data have changed the minds of many.
There are great dangers in centralizing the organization's data bank in the minds of its managers.
The indices of the fit of the model to the data allow for the assessment of whether said model fits the data, keeping in mind the nature of the sample and its variance.
Since these students have not been trained, either in statistics or in the interpretation of clinical data, their answers may capture the natural data interpretation strategy of the human mind.
