Paper 1 · Research Aptitude
Which scientific method is a bottom-up or generative approach to research?
ADeductive method
BInductive method ✓ Correct
CHypothesis method
DPattern method
Correct answer: (B) Inductive method — The bottom-up, generative approach is the inductive method, so that is the answer.
Explanation
★The bottom-up, generative approach is the inductive method, so that is the answer.
★The inductive method starts from particular observations and builds up to a general theory.
★So it generates new ideas and generalizations from the ground of data, working bottom-up.
★The deductive method works top-down, deriving predictions from a theory already held.
★There is no separate hypothesis method as the bottom-up approach here.
★The pattern method feeds into induction, so the bottom-up, generative approach is inductive.
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