social policy

Inductive reasoning: the punching bag of armchair philosophers and data hawks alike. For the rest of us, it’s barely on the radar—just another abstraction that doesn’t seem to matter in the daily grind. But let’s be real: social policy, the rules we live by, depends on how we connect dots in messy, incomplete data. And inductive reasoning is the duct tape holding it all together. Before we dig deeper, here’s a quick primer: inductive reasoning is about drawing general conclusions from specific observations....