When Durkheim tested psychological theories of suicide with data from official records, he used the _______ logic of inquiry; when he developed his own theory of suicide from the same data, he used the _______ logic of inquiry.
A) deductive; deductive
B) deductive; inductive
C) inductive; deductive
D) inductive; inductive

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Durkheim used the deductive logic of inquiry when testing psychological theories against data (starting with a theory and then looking at the data to see if it supports the theory). When he developed his own theory from the data, he used inductive logic (starting with data and then developing a theory based on the patterns observed in the data).

When Durkheim Tested Psychological Theories of Suicide with Data from Official