You have probably watched Robert Downey Jr. doing some really impressive mathematical calculations and spinning some shrewd logic to catch some bad guys in Victorian London. That is, if you’ve seen Guy Ritchie’s Sherlock Holmes films.These sly smarts are just part of the genius of Robert Dow… well, not him, obviously. It’s actually Sherlock Holmes who… hey, not even him! It’s the genius of author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.But you know what? Even that’s not right. The true brilliance here belongs to only one thing—deductive reasoning.First, What is Inductive Reasoning?But before we learn what deductive reasoning is, let’s first learn what inductive reasoning is. And don’t think this is some intellectual stuff that’s beyond your comprehension. In fact, you have been using it all your life.Remember being in school, and one of your classmates being a snooty little brat whose guts you hated? He had his gang of friends, and you despised them all. And why not? They were his friends. What good could they possibly be? Right?That was you, using inductive reasoning. In a single and simple word, inductive reasoning is “generalization.” In more complicated terms, we call it a logical method of drawing conclusions (broad generalizations) based on a specific observation, pattern, example, or evidence.For example:Specific observation: X is a snooty little brat.Secondary observation: X is friends with A, B, and C.Conclusion (broad generalization): Therefore, A, B, and C are also snooty little brats.What did you do here as a middle schooler? You drew your observation from a...
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