Analytical thinking

There are 3 types of analythical thinking:

Deduction: Goes from a central idea to a particular case. Mostly used in Environmental and Mathematics fields as quantitative analysis.

Induction: Goes from many particular cases to form a main idea. Mostly used in Social science as qualitative analysis.

Abduction: The newest one of the three. In short, we know what we want to accomplish and the desired result, but without knowing how to do it.

Summary:

What we know and don't know in each case:

Deduction:   What ---------How---------Result
Induction:     What---------How---------?????
Abduction:    What---------????---------Result