What Kind of Reasoning Uses a Few Specific Observations to Produce

question 26

Multiple Choice

What kind of reasoning uses a few specific observations to produce a statement about a larger possible set of observations?

• A) inductive
• B) deductive
• C) scientific
• D) predictive

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Definitions:

Geometric Mean

A mean or average which indicates the central tendency or typical value of a set of numbers by using the product of their values (as opposed to the arithmetic mean which uses their sum).

Median

A statistical measure that represents the middle value of a dataset when it's ordered from smallest to largest.

Mode

The value that appears most frequently in a data set.

Deviations

Differences between observed values and the average or expected values in a data set.