BIO 1130 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Autopsy, Inductive Reasoning, Deductive Reasoning

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Biology
• Course: BIO 1130
• Professor: Francois Chapleau

Document Summary

Example: someone sees lots of people enter classroom, they assume there is a class happening. Example: there may not be a lecture and it was a movie viewing: deductive reasoning (hypothesis-based approach) Stating hypothesis and drawing conclusions after experimentation from the hypothesis. Example: someone sees all of the students entering the classroom, thinks there may be a lecture, would take next step to enter the classroom and confirm that their hypothesis is correct. Provides evidence that allows explanations that are closer to the truth: can combine both types of reasoning. Prediction: if i taste all kinds of oranges then they will always be sweet. Oranges from madagascar are very sour: falsified hypothesis. Dead fish of gatineau: scientific process must be implemented starting with observation, initial postulated causes: toxic spill, anoxia, quebec government did an analysis of the fish. After necropsies: cause of death was gas bubble disease caused by the outflow of a hydroelectric dam.