Which of the following is an example of inductive reasoning?

It has snowed every day this week, so it will likely snow tomorrow is the correct example of inductive reasoning. Furthermore, inductive reasoning makes wide generalizations from specific observations.

EXPLANATION:  

Inductive reasoning is the contradict of deductive reasoning. Basically, there is data, afterward, conclusions are obtained from these data. According to Utah State University, this is called inductive logic.

According to Wassertheil-Smoller, in inductive inference, people move from the specific to the general. People make a lot of observations, see patterns, make a generalization, and conclude an explanation or a theory. In science, there is a perpetual interaction between inductive inference (according to observations) and deductive inference (according to theory), until people get closer and closer to 'truth', that people can only manage but cannot be certain with complete certainty.

An example of inductive logic is, "The coin Jason pulled from the bag is a penny. That coin is a penny. A third coin from the bag is a penny. Thus, all the coins in the bag are pennies."

Even if all the bases are true in a statement, inductive reasoning permits the conclusion to be false. For example: "Ken is seventy years old. Ken is a grandfather. Thus, all seventy years old people are grandfather." The conclusion does not necessarily follow rationally from the statement.

Inductive reasoning has a concern in the scientific method. Scientists employ it to make hypotheses and theories. Deductive reasoning enables them to implement theory to certain situations.

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KEYWORDS: inductive reasoning, induction, observation, example of inductive reasoning, deductive reasoning  

Subject  : English

Class  : 7-9

Sub-Chapter: Inductive Reasoning