Inductive reasoning in the sciences is very much like solving puzzles and looking for patterns based on limited information.
Example: Four men, three alive and one dead, are in a room surrounded by fifty-three bicycles. What happened?
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Example: A black cat sits on the hood of a black car under a broken street light during a new moon, but the cat is perfectly visible. Why?
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"Hey Bob, good to see you. Boy I bet it's been almost twenty years."
"You look great," Bob said. "Tell me what have you been doing? I hear you've been running your father's gas station?"
"Yeah, but more important than that, I'm married. In fact, I married someone who was a year behind us in high school and I'm pretty sure you didn't know. By the way, this is my daughter," the friend said.
Bob looked down at the little girl who was five or six years old and extended his hand and asked the little girl her name.
"My mother and I have the same name," she said.
"Oh that's nice," said Bob. "Then I guess your name must be Annie."
How did he know?
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