Critical Thinking Skills for Intelligence Analysis
Whether performed by national agencies or local law enforcement, the ultimate objective of
intelligence analysis is to develop timely inferences that can be acted upon with confidence.
To this end, effective intelligence analysis consists of integrating collected information and
then developing and testing hypotheses based on that information through successive
iterations of additional data collection, evaluation, collation, integration and inductive
reasoning. The desired end products are inferences that specify the who, what, when,
where, why and how of the activity of interest and lead to appropriate actions.
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