An example of hypothetico deductive reasoning would be, if you decided to make a toy airplane out of balsa wood. You make the plane, but when you use it, you find it crashes straight to the ground instead of flying. In your mind, you go over each step you took in making the plane as well as all the materials you used. As you're going over the steps one-by-one, you try to work out in your mind exactly what went wrong so you can fix the problem on your next try. Was the wood too thick? is there too much wood at the front on the wings? Were the wings too short? Too long? Is the nose too heavy?
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When faced with a problem, you start with a general theory of all possible factors that might affect an outcome and deduce from it specific hypothesis (or predictions) about what might happen.
Inductive reasoning varies from deductive reasoning as follows: 1) inductive reasoning is a reason supporting an argument and 2) deductive reasoning is an argument against an argument.
Deductive reasoning In mathematics, a proof is a deductive argument for a mathematical statement. Deductive reasoning, unlike inductive reasoning, is a valid form of proof. It is, in fact, the way in which geometric proofs are written.
Adults are 18 or older. Ahmed is an adult. Therefore, Ahmed is 18 or older.
what is a hypothetico deductive model? The Hypothetico-deductive model is a model of a method of scientific investigation and reasoning. It is very commonly used without anyone realizing they are using it. In a nutshell if is the way of discovering answers by: Recognizing a hypothesis (theory), and then proposing the expected outcome of an experiment of this hypothesis. You then make observations of the experiment/phenomena and deduce whether your observations disprove or prove your hypothesis and proposed outcome. This strays away from the belief that induction or deduction are the only methods of scientific inquiry, because it accepts the resulting answers as probable, or most likely to be true than not. This has been accepted as the best method of inquiry in some instances because sometimes the most probable answer is the best (accurate) answer we can expect to gain.