What do you understand of the term "inductive reasoning" by Pollit and Hungler, 1995?

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Inductive reasoning is the process of arriving at a conclusion based on a set of observations.
In itself, it is not a valid method of proof. Just because a person observes a number of situations in which a pattern exists doesn't mean that that pattern is true for all situations.
For example, after seeing many people outside walking their dogs, one may observe that every dog that is a poodle is being walked by an elderly person. The person observing this pattern could inductively reason that poodles are owned exclusively by elderly people. This is by no means a method of proof for such a suspicion; in fact, in the real world it is a means by which people and things are stereotyped.
A hypothesis based on inductive reasoning, can, however, lead to a more careful study of a situation.
By inductive reasoning, in the example above, a viewer has formed a hypothesis that poodles are owned exclusively by elderly people. The observer could then conduct a more formal study based on this hypothesis and conclude that his hypothesis was either right, wrong, or only partially wrong.

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