Observation

Observation

Inference

Putting together things you already know

2. Inference

what it is

How to recognize it

Using prior knowledge to ........

Whenever s another person might be able to come up with a different explanation, you must have been using something you already knew

Examples

You know that Mr. Gliddon is a vegetarian, and that vegetarians don't eat meat. You're also pretty sure that bologna is some kind of meat. You can put all those things together to infer that Mr. Gliddon did not bring a bologna sandwich for lunch today (even though you did not directly observe what he brought for lunch) 

Examples

A scientist observes a peacock cleaning its feathers a lot in the month of April. They use their prior knowledge about Peacocks mating in May to infer that the birds are just preparing themselves for finding mates.

Practice

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