Science Uses Inductive Reasoning to Advance Knowledge

question 7

Multiple Choice

Science uses inductive reasoning to advance knowledge. This means that

• A) Scientists have to be incredibly smart.
• B) Scientists make predictions and test them.
• C) Scientists can always figure out what's going on.
• D) Scientists can make things up if they can't test them.
• E) Science isn't necessarily right.

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