Question

All the students you know taking a biology class are going to a picnic hence you concluded all students in the biology class are going for picnic This type of reasoning is an example of

a) Deduction
b) Induction
c) Inaccurate information
d) None of the above

Answer 1

Induction

Explanation:

This is an example of induction. When you take a (possibly false) conclusion according to the information you know. In this case, since you dont know of any case of a biology student not going for picnic, then you conclude that every biology student go for picnic .

It isnt deduction because the reasoning is not based on logic, rather, it is based on the partial information you know. You can argue that, since you know many students that went for a picninc, then the whole class should go to the picnic because they organized it that way, however you might need a bit more of information to reach this conclussion, for example, that the teacher went with them. Maybe, for example, a small group of students decided to go elsewhere instead.

There isnt inaccurate information here. It is incomplete, yes, but it doesnt lack accuracy: all you know is true. There isnt innacurate information.