MyThought - CriticalThinking is a (the?) Process of evaluating and creating information, knowledge, understanding, and wisdom from Data. Following this process helps you create big-ideas and is an effective process of Idea-Development. Critical thinkings 'output' is Understanding and is a type of SyntheticThinking . The information that is inputted (through fact-finding & the knowledge we already have) are the bits of data that AnalyticalThinking is concerned with.