STA630 GDB solution

Discussion Question

Most of the researches show that household poverty is a powerful motive for child labor.

Household poverty is a major phenomenon that leads children towards work – at the expense of their schooling. Children indulge into work for the survival of their families. Also, the poverty rate varies from country to country therefore the rate of Child Labor is different in different countries.

Question:Identify which type of reasoning (INDUCTIVE or DEDUCTIVE) has been used in above paragraph? Explain briefly.  

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4. Books, websites and other reading material may be consulted before posting your comments but copying or reproducing the text from books, websites and other reading materials is strictly prohibited. Such comments will be marked as Zero (0).Inductive reasoning, or induction, is reasoning from a specific case or cases and deriving a general rule. It draws inferences from observations in order to make generalizations.

SOLUTION:

Inductive reasoning, or induction, is reasoning from a specific case or cases and deriving a general rule. It draws inferences from observations in order to make generalizations.

Induction is usually described as moviing from the specific to the general,, while deduction begins with the general and ends with the
specific..

Arguments based on laws, rules and acceptted principles are generally used ffor Deductive Reasoning.. Observations tend to be used for
Inductive Arguments..

Inference can be done in four stages:

Observation: collect facts, without bias. 
Analysis: classify the facts, identifying patterns o of regularity. 
Inference: From the patterns, infer generalizations about the relations between the facts.

Confirmation: Testing the inference through further observation. 
In an argument, you might:

Derive a general rule in an accepted area and then apply the rule in the area where you want the person to behave. 
Give them lots of detail, then explain what it all means. 
Talk about the benefits of the parts and only get to the overall benefits later. 
Take what has happened and give a plausible explanation for why it has happened. 
Inductive arguments can include:

Part-to-whole: where the whole is assumed to be like individual parts (only bigger).

Extrapolations: where areas beyond the area of study are assumed to be like the studied area.

Predictions: where the future is assumed to be like the past.