Quotes About Inference

EXTRAPOLATE is principally defined as: "to project, extend, or expand known data or experience into an area not known or experienced so as to arrive at a usually conjectural knowledge of the unknown area by inferences based on an assumed continuity, correspondence, or other parallelism between it and what is known." Whee! Did you get

We live in a country where causes are always seen but never effects.

Now, remember what Bayes' Theorem does: it helps us update a hypothesis based on new evidence.

Bayes' Theorem does: it helps us update a hypothesis based on new evidence.

The classic experiment I describe next shows that people will not draw from base-rate information an inference that conflicts with other beliefs. It also supports the uncomfortable conclusion that teaching psychology is mostly a waste of time.

You never have to explain what you don't say.

When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends.

If you want to identify someones character, examine the friends he sits with.

The idea of a universal mind or Logos would be, I think, a fairly plausible inference from the present state of scientific theory.

We are not inferring design to account for a black box, but to account for an open box.

Design must be proved before a designer can be inferred.

Circumstantial evidence is evidence.

There can no great smoke arise, but there must be some fire.

Reasoning draws a conclusion, but does not make the conclusion certain, unless the mind discovers it by the path of experience.

In some small field each child should attain, within the limited range of its experience and observation, the power to draw a justly limited inference from observed facts.

If ... the past may be no Rule for the future, all Experience becomes useless and can give rise to no Inferences or Conclusions.

Induction is the process of taking things within our experience to be representative of the world outside our experience. It is a process of projection or extrapolation.

Remember that it is not right to take a passage out of its context and to draw inferences from it. It is imperative to take into consideration the preceding and following statements in order to fathom the writer's meaning and purpose before making any deductions.

Stupidity is much the same all the world over. A stupid person's notions and feelings may confidently be inferred from those which prevail in the circle by which the person is surrounded. Not so with those whose opinions and feelings are an emanation from their own nature and faculties.

The process of elimination, combined with a modicum of common sense, will always assist us to arrive at the correct conclusion with the maximum of possible accuracy and the minimum of hard labor. Which being translated means: I guessed it.

my major form of exercise is jumping to conclusions.

Every man is like the company he is wont to keep.

Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another.

the implication was there for anyone to hear.