Antonia Novello used cause-and-effect inductive reasoning when trying to devise a solution for the public health problems of AIDS, violence, alcohol and tobacco. She noted that, after the release of the Joe Camal ads of 1988, more teens and children began to smoke. She reasoned that the Joe Camal ads were the cause and a raised number of children and teens smoking was the effect. This is inductive because it deals in probability rather than necessity. It was not certain that the ads were the sole reason for children and teens deciding to smoke. However, in using cause-and-effect inductive reasoning, she was able to see that the Joe Camal ads were most likely at fault and therefore act accordingly. She worked to ban cigarette and alcohol ads that targeted youths as a result. I think this is another great example of how being able to create proper arguments, be they inductive or deductive, can be useful in life.
I agree the way she used the cause-and-effect was a good example of inductive argument. She was able to bring up the issue to the public that the youth were smoking because of the ads that were brought out to the public that targeted the youth. And with that premise she brought up, she was able to come to a conclusion that the ads were the problem that increased smoking within the youths. With that brought up she was able to ban the ads that were released that targeted the youth. It was a good example because it shows that inductive argument can help figure out a problem as well.
ReplyDeleteI also agree that this was a very good use of inductive reasoning. I think that she was also able to deduce that in order to combat this Joe Camel ad she had to make her own ads. Hers were to ban alcohol and drug usage. It was a good idea and was a great help to stop domestic violence. Inductive reasoning indeed deals with probability compared to deduction reasoning which is a series of incidents that if those are true, then the conclusion is true. I also agree that the cause of the sudden flux of smokers was the Joe Camel ad. Dr. Novello most likely saved a lot of lives.
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