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Making Inferences

Making Inferences. Inferences. We make inferences all the time. Example: You are sitting in your car stopped at a red light. You hear screeching tires, then a loud crash, and breaking glass. What happened?

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Making Inferences

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  1. Making Inferences

  2. Inferences • We make inferences all the time. • Example: • You are sitting in your car stopped at a red light. You hear screeching tires, then a loud crash, and breaking glass. What happened? • You do not know exactly what happened, but you INFER, or make an educated guess, about what happened from the available evidence.

  3. Think of inferences that you have made recently.

  4. Practice • Those who enjoy belonging to clubs, going to parties, and inviting friends often to their homes for dinner are gregarious. • What does gregarious mean? • What clues do you have?

  5. The Problem with Inferences • War of the Worlds Broadcast(23:52) • On Halloween Eve in 1938, hundreds of Americans made the same faulty inference. The CBS Mercury Theater presented a radio broadcast entitled “War of the Worlds.” The famous actor Orson Welles told the nation about a Martian invasion and claimed that it was currently happening. • Hundreds of Americans panicked. They feared that their lives were in danger, yet they didn’t check to see if their assumptions were based on fact.

  6. The Problem with Inferences • You should understand all of the facts before you make an inference. • You need to grasp the stated facts first. Then try to understand the unstated meaning.

  7. What point is this cartoon making?

  8. Start with the facts: What is stated?

  9. What message is the cartoonist trying to get across?

  10. What do you see? Describe what is stated

  11. What message is the cartoonist trying to get across?

  12. What do you see? What is stated?

  13. What message is the cartoonist trying to get across?

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