Philosophy 120: Critical Thinking A graduate student in a marketing course devel

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Philosophy 120: Critical Thinking

A graduate student in a marketing course developed a research project to find out about business travellers' preferences for booking air tickets - by computer, through a travel agent, or by phone to the airlines. So she put a big ad in the business section of a couple of national newspapers requesting that people register their opinions on an on-line survey they could access on the web. Ninety-four percent of the 532 respondents reported being very comfortable with using the computer to make their airline reservations. Her conclusion - that the vast majority of business travellers, many of whom were not young people, felt that comfortable using a computer - was a surprise to her and to her marketing teachers.

Choose one answer:
a. Induction by Confirmation

b. Inductive Generalization

c. Argument by Analogy (properties)

d. Argument by Analogy (relations)

Explanation / Answer

The given case above is case of Inductive Generalization.So choose option B.

Inductive Generalization generalises from a taken group or sample and generalises it.In this case the given student has analysed 532 respondents from survey and then generalised the result obtained to vast majority of business travellers .So he /she has first obtained result from a samll group of people and then generalises that result to big general group of all business travellers .

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