Inductive and Deductive Research Approaches

What is the difference between inductive and deductive research? In this lecture, I talk about the research process and the stage at which you begin with an inductive and deductive research approach.

[amberfrost]

I'm writing my PhD thesis and I could not, for the life of me, get my head around this! I now get it, so thank you very much!!

[mployee]

My deduction after watching this video; this is properly explained.

[Thetrurth]

I believe that the two examples were very informative and cleared up all confusion regarding the understanding deductive and inductive research

[sanketwalunj]

Thanks David for such a nice explanation in simple terms. Understanding deductive and Inductive approach is quite difficult in actual but you made it so easy to understand.

[drewpac]

My uni took 2 hours to explain this and I wasn’t clear. You clarified better it in <7 minutes. Thank you

[msmaar]

I really wanna thank you for taking time and creating educational content like this! I was struggling with the same concept trying to understand the difference and while researching it came across this video :) Thank you again! If people that teach approached every new topic as if they are explaining it to someone completely ignorant of it which we all are until (properly) taught, life of students would be 10x easier and less stressful! Keep your vids coming! Loving it :)

[amidas]

This is a topic that I do not understand in my online class, but now it is clear. thankyou☺️

[Macebeard]

Really helped me to grasp these two research distinctions, thank you!

[setshegoledwaba]

This really shed a bit of light because I was clueless. Thanks for explaining it so well and using simple examples. I subscribed and will be visiting for more videos.

[mathewlungu]

Thanks for this contribution regarding research approaches.

[sincerelymai]

This is very helpful. Thank you for sharing with clear flow and examples.

[Tt-nxiw]

Thank you sir for explaining... This helped me a lot.

[NecolleandPioTV]

very helpful. easy to understand with examples. possibly can understand quickly.

[simonkang]

Very informative for me. Thanks a million.

[clemencebihemilomata]

Thank you for your video. I am at the moment doing a masters and I am not sure if you made a mistake on your diagram, what I have from uni is the opposite deductive= observation, pattern, tentative hypothesis and theory. Inductive= theory, hypothesis, observation and confirmation (Saunders Research Onion) but to be honest I feel like what I have is wrong because looking for a pattern and then just generalise for a conclusion is inductive to me.

[apoorvadk]

Thank you so very much for such clarity in the explanation!

[dsvashok]

Thank you sir. Explained very crisply.

[malcolmmarzo]

Good to start with "this is not easy to understand." However nobody does a clear explanation on You Tube.

[mpessan]

The findings of an inductive research seems to be less reliable in terms of reality than the deductive approach that is completely data-driven. In the inductive approach a minimal number of interviewees might lead to a false pattern that does not match reality, whereas in the deductive approach badly-performed experiments might create false cues that will lead to false trends.

[Rosy-nett]

The examples actually confused me more than I was before coming to this video-