inferences

This chapter explains how inferences take place in our minds, how they relate to facts, and how far wrong we can go when we mistake inferences for facts.

Infer means to take what you know and make a guess. When we infer, we use imagination or reasoning to provide explanations for situations in which all the facts are either not available or not yet determined. For example, If you get fired from your job, you can infer, maybe you did something wrong. It can be used as a strategy in planning and choosing alternatives. It detects and consultants all kind of valued for their ability to examine facts, imagination, reasoning to link with explanation and generalization ties to all information together into meaningful whole.

Responsible report writing or descriptive writing lets the facts speak for themselves as much as possible. Inference thinking is natural to humans, if someone walks up to us with a gun in there are hand we are going to assume they mean us harm. Inference is a way of gathering information, due to other things that may give to the ultimate finding. It is important to remember that inference is not factual. Just because one may infer something is going to happen, it may not happen at all, the exact opposite might happen.



CRCB Chapter7 Inference Exercise

Exercise 7b, Determining an Author’s Purpose,P214

1. to inform
2. to persuade you
3. to inform
4. entertain
5. to inform


Exercise 7c, Comparisons,P216

1. Comparison between: a Sun-bath b. a drink of wine to the reptile
Implied similarity: it was very enjoyable

2. Comparison between: a. under pressure b. lion
Implied similarity: he feels ambitious

3. Comparison between: a. facts b. air on which the scientist learns.
Implied similarity: Scientists need facts.

4. Comparison between: a. battleship b. computer
Implied similarity: The hacker uses his computer to assail the weak and subvert the unsuspecting.

5. Comparison between: a. liquid b. people in the stadium aisles
Implied similarity: They both move freely.

6. Comparison between: a. the protagonist b. delicate vegetable
Implied similarity: They both start indoors, where it is safe, and are moved outside. In this case, the protagonist starts out in urban England.


Exercise 7d, Setting the Tone,P219

1. c. Troubled
2. a. Intense
3. c. Humorous
4. c. Sarcastic


Exercise 7e, Detecting Bias in Paragraphs- Emotive Words,P221


1. This author is biased, or sympathetic, towards poor people and believes that they have not been dealt with fairly in terms of equal access to good jobs.
2. The author believes that it is wrong.
3. He believes that things have gotten better, but there is still a long way to go.
4. He doesn’t like it.

Exercise 7f, More Practice in Detecting Bias,P223

1. I agree with the article. I believe with the statement about him hanging.
2. He wanted to express his views.
3. The USA needs to go after Osama Bin Laden.
4. Swinging from the end of the rope, vanquished
5. Angry, “Swing from the end of the rope…”