The "5 Whys" is another iterative technique used to determine the root cause of a problem or stimulate creative and in-depth thinking.
Sven Birkerts, in his essay, "The Owl Has Flown", echoes Nicholas Carr's sentiments in Is Google Making Us Stupid? that internet browsing leads not only to a lack of depth in what is read, but a lack of depth of thinking as well.
An even more compelling aspect is that the depth of thinking and discussion featuring in that particular subject can be overwhelmingly interesting to you compared with the limited energy and time allowed during the busy semester.
Sir Leigh Lewis, the chair of the Commission on a Bill of Rights, showed the depth of thinking about the future of the court when he said that the 2010 Interlaken Declaration on the future of the ECHR raised the possibility that other institutions of the Council of Europe could qualify the European Convention on Human Rights.
McDonnell gave a taste of the depth of thinking in the new leadership over how to hold the party together when he said that MPs, including those serving on the frontbench, should have a free vote on whether to go to war.
Both approaches concentrate on understanding the structure of knowledge to show the depth of thinking required in clinical reasoning [ 42].
While the methodological principle of 'blinding' for minimising bias in randomised controlled trials (RCT) is widely debated and accepted, rarely is this depth of thinking applied to its correct handling with respect to design, reporting and analysis.
"I don't think there has been a lot of in-depth thinking about this, but superficially, emotionally, there's probably going to be a knee-jerk response," said Nazir U. Khaja, a California doctor who is a former president of the American Muslim Council, in an interview before the verdict.
In-depth thinking isn't the solution to every problem.
[But] Hu Yaobang and Zhao Ziyang were ahead of us in terms of in-depth thinking.
