Poll of the Day > What is the difference between Inductive and Deductive reasoning

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I need this answered because homework for my Biology class.
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never heard of inductive reasoning. perhaps use your book or the oracle known as "google".

deductive reasoning is where you make educated guesses (deduce) based on the available evidence
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deductive should be really straight forward and the conclusion is necessarily true. it's those if a then b therefore b type of things

inductive is using evidence to make the most probable conclusion within reason
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https://www.khanacademy.org/math/algebra-home/alg-series-and-induction/alg-deductive-and-inductive-reasoning/v/deductive-reasoning-1

https://www.livescience.com/21569-deduction-vs-induction.html

Basically think of inductive reasoning as a guess based on information available, such as watching a trend and predicting the next few outcomes. It deals more with unknowns whereas deductive reasoning is connecting known properties. All estimates use inductive reasoning.

By comparison, deductive reasoning can involve determining if correlated effects have some sort of causation. For instance, you leave a door open and you hear a slam later. If you walk to that door and it's closed, you might deduce the sound was from it closing.
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