The inductive method is that scientific method that reaches general conclusions based on specific hypotheses or antecedents. Sources state that this method can originally be associated with studies by Francis Bacon in the early seventeenth century. The inductive method is usually based on the observation and experimentation of concrete facts and actions in order to reach a general resolution or conclusion about them; In other words, in this process it begins with the data and ends up reaching a theory, therefore it can be said that it goes from the particular to the general. In the inductive method, general laws about the behavior or conduct of objects are set out specifically from the observation of particular cases that occur during the experiment.
The methodology used to carry out this process can be summarized in four steps, which include observing the facts or actions and recording them, the scientific inquiry always starts from a particular phenomenon, which does not have its own explanation within of the possible scientific knowledge existing at a given moment; then comes the elaboration of a hypothesis or the analysis of the previously observed, here a possible explanation and possible definition of the observed is formed; Then, in the third part of the process, the deduction of predictions or the classification of the previously obtained foundations is presented., these predictions are formulated from the hypothesis; and finally the fourth step starts the experiment, and we find the representation of the universal statements derived from the research process that was carried out.
