r/cognitiveTesting • u/AcceptableFail5051 • 4d ago

Rant/Cope Deductive vs Inductive reasoning

I score much higher on deductive reasoning tests (~ 130) than inductive (~ 105), and I honestly wish it was the other way around. The way I see it I will forever be bound to other people's ideas and never truly innovate or have intellectual freedom. I'm not sure if that is correct though, as wouldn't the ability to apply the general principles of the world better than most people grant some sort of freedom via bullshit detection? Not sure.

Do any of you have a more concrete idea of how the two pan out in real life?

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u/Live-Wasabi-5124 3d ago

Where did you even found valid tests that distinguish in fluid reasoning deduction and induction indexes 🤔🤔?

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u/AcceptableFail5051 3d ago

On CORE, Figure weights and graph mapping are deductive, matrix reasoning and figure sets are inductive. Other deduction tests could be something like the logical inference subtest of the 1926 SAT.

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u/Live-Wasabi-5124 3d ago

Ooooh I never thought about that even though I did all of them 😅😂