Razonamiento informal: estudio de la influencia del nivel educativo y la experiencia de inmigración

Abstract

The influence of culture on rationality has been analyzed in a diverse number of investigations. Yet, the differential effect of the immigration experience seems to have been slighted as the focal point of relevant studies. This investigation stems from the study of informal rationality, with the objective of analyzing how it is influenced by the level of education and the immigration experience. The study was conducted with 20 subjects; all from Andalusia and Ivory Cost. They were grouped by place of origin and level of education. After assigning each participant a debate subject to be carried out in their native tongue/dialect, it was studied that the level of education influences the quality of discourse and mode of argumentation. No significant differences were found relating to
the immigration experience. In summation, the relevance of these results stride on the idea that acquiring argumentative skills could very well be a crucial phase in the development of the thought process, as well as broadening social and communicative skills.