What I learned: Week Six:Oct 22-28

Inference

In my Comp. class I learned that we all live by inference. What this means is if we see a women on the side of a road dressed in very little clothing and standing on a corner talking to a man who just walked up to her before she leaves with him in a car that she is a prostitute. That is an inference based on the information we have learned before and what we had just watched happen. Another example, if we see the same group walk into a Christian church every Sunday then we can infer that they are Christian. We take the information that we already have learned from past experiences and used that to make an assumption of the information.

We all do this by inference and this is how we live. If we see a dark street in a bad area of town at night we do not walk down it because what we have learned from not so much personal experiences but life situations we have heard about and how make life decisions on our inferences.