Question

State a conclusion that seems reasonable

You eat a new kind of fruit and suffer from hives for the first time in your life. A week later, you try the fruit again and the hives recur. A month later you have a similar experience


Conclusion




Can you believe this is math lol

Answer 1

• Conclusion: something about the fruit causes hives
• Yes, math is a subject in which you're taught inductive and deductive reasoning

Explanation:

If hives are only associated with the ingestion of the fruit, then it is reasonable to conclude that ingestion of the fruit is the proximate cause of the hives.

(In my experience, it is often not the fruit itself that is the issue, but the manner in which it is grown. Conventionally grown strawberries and pineapple and bell peppers give me hives, but organically grown versions of the same do not.)

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Math is one of the few courses in which logical reasoning skills are developed. (Emotional reasoning may be developed in literature courses.)

Statistics courses try to teach you that correlation is not causation, so the conclusion you would reach might be ...

ingestion of the fruit is highly correlated with outbreaks of hives