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Learning and Thinking
The Deep Thinking Inclination Scale
Measures the employee's appetite for effortful thinking: do they enjoy a complex problem or avoid it?
20 items
6 minutes
4 dimensions
Intermediate and above
What it measures
Distinguishes those who "cannot" from those who "do not want to". The first needs training, the second a task worth their thinking — and the remedies are nothing alike.
How to read the result
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Before administering
Confirm that an honest answer is more use to the student than the "right" answer, and that a great many people do not enjoy effortful thinking, and that this is normal.
Its limits
Sensitive to socially desirable answering — the respondent knows "I enjoy thinking" is the praised answer. Read it with their behaviour in meetings, not on its own.
Its dimensions
- Enjoying ThinkingWhen high: Enjoys complex thinking and seeks it out.
- Mental EffortWhen high: Puts in mental effort and reviews their work.
- Asking for EvidenceWhen high: Asks for the evidence and checks the source.
- Openness to DisagreementWhen high: Listens to the one who disagrees and changes their mind in the face of evidence.
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