Sentences with phrase «make inference»

Test means to check a particular person, product, service or feature and make an inference about its qualities.

Perhaps they'd just remove marketing materials that mention «end to end» encryption from UK versions of their services — and, much like a warrant canary, we'd have to make an inference that a certain service might no longer be trustworthy for UK users from that moment on.

Although the lack of timing or stated goals did not prevent the creation of a conspiracy, it did make the inference that the accused intended to participate in a plot far less likely.

Maybe it would be open on the evidence for the trier of fact to make that inference, but it wouldn't amount to a hill of beans, even a campfire's worth, unless the inference was of a necessary connection in which case «substantial» is meaningless, if the issue is factual causation which is clearly what's referred to in para. 10 of Clements.

You certainly consider the 3.08 standard deviation differenc to be sufficient to make that inference.

How could you possibly make that inference?

As stated in the report, this area of research does not attempt to make any inference about future temperatures.

This question is difficult to answer with any degree of certainty, although one can attempt to make an inference by examining the «revealed preferences» of contrarians.

And AFAIK any implications required a specific type of worldview to make that inference.

I don't think that's the point you were making but some might make the inference.

With a score of 221, students are expected to «make an inference based on explicit information in a biographical sketch,» but likely can't do things like find similarities between two characters or identify a paragraph's main topic, the report says.

For example, students are asked to make inference based on random sample or determine if a circle graph is an appropriate representation.

Students will look at pictures, and based on the photos or cartoons, make an inference backed up by the evidence displayed on the screen.

Use words the characters say to help you make an inference about their qualities and traits.

In this video I am explained how we can make inference about two samples back in the two populations by looking at the median shift and overlap between the boxes of the two samples

Here's a Greek word that means a usage of words to make an inference or draw a conclusion: Syllogism, pronounced, «SILL - lo - ji - zm.»

This activity helps students have a more concrete basis for understanding how to make an inference when they're reading.

On this basis it is possible to make the inference: «Such is my inner life and such also is life in general» (CE 281).

Mill seems, then, to require a further premise in order to make an inference from desire for individual happiness to desire for the general happiness.

William Austin asks whether humanity and divinity can be thought of as complementary models of Christ.2 Each model limits the use of the other (e.g. from Christ's humanity we can not make the inference of sinfulness, and from his divinity we can not make the inference of omniscience).

Even such spokesmen for Biblical inerrancy as Bernard Ramm, Carl Henry, and Clark Pinnock (i. e., those willing to make that inference) recognize that this is an unwise theological reduction.13 For it is to confuse one of several possible tests of evangelical consistency with the test of evangelical authenticity.

I can make that inference because it's common knowledge that you're rational, and your only motive for trading is an expected profit, so we've ruled out the possibility that you're buying, for example, because your preference for risk has changed.

«It's so obvious to us, but computers can't make these inferences,» he said.

For starters, though Trump's China policy preferences are largely unknown, one can make some inferences by examining his nominations for key posts that have major responsibilities for managing U.S. - China relations.

Either way, action or inaction will allow us to make some inferences about Poloz as a central banker that will be very useful going forward — this is a huge learning experience, and the statement, the monetary policy report that accompanies it, and the press conference that follows are much - reads and must - watches.

I'm not trying to put words in your mouth here; I'm just making inferences.

Inference and imagination can go astray, but the laws of nature and logic are reliable enough, in Hartshorne's view, to guide us in making inferences and imagining «the other» as it really is; otherwise the knowledge of nature, God, and the self could not increase through history, as Hartshorne is convinced it does.

To deny this is to say that God is not temporal.23 Hartshorne concurs on the point about temporality, but not on the claim that God must make inferences in order to know the past.

Biblical writers were continually making inference from the environment of nature to nature's God.

The «valid inductive inference» pattern (2.1)-- abstracted from the passages prior to the passage mentioning the uncertainty of analogy — suggests that Whitehead's meaning was simply that if there is analogy, a further condition for making the inference is still required, viz., the internal relationships between entities and environments.

These reviewers have tended to assert their interpretive authority, unconsciously making the inference that, because the historical - critical method would not lead one to say this or that about the book of Jonah or the Gospel of Matthew, therefore it can not be said.

That is not to say that the biblical writers had a purely natural theology, but as you read through the scriptures, you will find that the biblical writers were continually making inference from nature to nature's God.

Whitehead takes the rather different view that while we are conditionally justified, for metaphysical reasons, in making these inferences (when confined to a particular space - time region where there is traceable continuity), we are not justified in construing the empirical generalization unrestrictedly.

Sampling also was not large enough to make any inferences on the specific grains, flours, and seeds more or less likely to be contaminated.»

Further research revealed distinct activation differences in the medial prefrontal cortex (PFC) of participants in a survey who were asked to make inferences about people similar or dissimilar politically.

The results showed different reactions: when asked to make judgments about similar people, areas in the ventromedial PFC became active, and when asked to make inferences about dissimilar people, areas in the dorsomedial PFC became active.

As Harvard University psychologist Alfonso Caramazza will explain in a lecture, scientists often make inferences about how the normal language system works by examining people who have damage to the areas of the brain that process language.

False Memories Without realizing it, we often make inferences to fill in gaps or remember being somewhere we weren't because we're so familiar with the story.

«Our data suggest that contagious yawning is a by - product of the ability to conceive of yourself and to use your experience to make inferences about comparable experiences and mental states in others,» Gallup told New Scientist.

The results are of interest to geoscientists who can use the data to precisely model the movement of the earth's crust and to make inferences about the dynamics of the earth's interior.

They found that it is possible to make inferences about the wealth of a region by measuring the amount of nighttime illumination.

In light of their findings, the authors recommend consumers be more cautious when they make inferences about product quality based on user ratings.

The evolutionary relationships between nearly 8,000 species of fish are delineated in the branches of the tree, allowing the researchers to make inferences about all 30,000 or so species of ray - finned fish.

«Obviously, access to all these neurons with the interface and recording technology that we have today is not possible, and clinical neuroscientists have to work hard to make inferences from very limited data they can access,» he says.

«You can make inferences that otherwise would be impossible.»

The hypothesis is that more interconnectedness enables stronger feedback loops, which, according to Olshausen, are probably how the brain achieves «perceptual filling in,» where higher layers make inferences about what lower layers are sensing based on partial information.

Feedback did not, however, have an effect on how much men relied on what a woman was wearing to make their inferences.

Together with his colleagues from the Senckenberg Research Institute, Prof. Dr. Friedmann Schrenk and PD Dr. Ottmar Kullmer, as well as other international scientists, the biogeologist from Tübingen examined the fossil giant ape's tooth enamel in order to make inferences on its diet and to define potential factors for its extinction.

«All faults are weak at the surface because there is no confining pressure, so we have to make inferences» about each quake's deep - earth origin.

I say, it is an intellectual challenge and it deserves the finest scientific minds to look at these kinds of questions and to try to make inferences from the kind of data that we have available.