HPED 2030 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Inductive Reasoning, Pseudoscience, Deductive Reasoning

• School: Mount Royal University
• Department: Health and Physical Education
• Course: HPED 2030
• Professor: Sommer Christie

Document Summary

Research is a way to: gather information, make a sound judgement, develop new knowledge. Research in our daily lives: staying current as a professional, making informed personal decisions, prevent influence from false and misleading advertising, distinguishing legitimate research from pseudo-scientific research, be able to read and comprehend research. Characteristics of the researcher: open-mindedness, knowledge of a specific subject, perseverance, honesty. Systematic plan: question, follow a specific plan, collect and analyze data, disseminate the information, step 4 usually leads to another question and begins the cycle again. Characteristics of a good research question: question is feasible, question is clear, question is significant (substantial and original, question is ethical. Knowledge paradigm the basic belief system or worldview that guides the researcher. Steps in reasoning: two approaches to research include inductive and deductive reasoning. Inductive reasoning is typically associated with qualitative research and deductive reasoning is typically associated with quantitative research.