Answer to Question #180793 in Management for Jamie Murray

Question

Miguel asks each person in his work group to estimate the cost of their project. Three people have not yet turned in their estimates by the time Miguel must provide cost estimates to his boss. Which type of reasoning must Miguel use to finish his own estimates?

Answer 1

This is because it involves deciding what the most likely inference is that can be made from a set of observations. Abductive reasoning is important because there is often many or an infinite number of possible explanations for a phenomenon, so you need some way to decide which possible explanations to look at first.