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And he says, "It seems as if the ideal argument for most philosophers is you give your audience the premises and then you give them the inferences and the conclusion, and if they don't accept the conclusion, they die.
And the fundamental idea is you want to make inferences and then take actions.
So we've made inferences, we've done predictions, now we have to generate actions.
And we make sweeping judgments and inferences from body language.
So for the first time, we don't have to look at just averages over single individuals, or have individuals playing computers, or try to make inferences that way.
Are the inferences valid?
Because, it turns out that the fascinating thing about science is also a fascinating thing about children, which, to put a gentler spin on Mark Twain, is precisely their ability to draw rich, abstract inferences rapidly and accurately from sparse, noisy data.
I've just shown you two laboratory experiments out of literally hundreds in the field that make similar points, because the really critical point is that children's ability to make rich inferences from sparse data underlies all the species-specific cultural learning that we do.
And so you have to use the tools that you've developed around you for Venus, Earth and Mars, and you have to apply them to these other situations, and hope that you're making reasonable inferences from the data, and that you're going to be able to determine the best candidates for habitable planets, and those that are not.
We need to know what they say they want, not what they want in their heart of hearts, not what they think they can get, but what they say they want, because that is a strategically chosen position, and we can work backwards from that to draw inferences about important features of their decision-making.
Time and time again we have watched--or started to watch--a highly proclaimed movie, only to be turned off by the language, violence, and sexual inferences.
In Dr. Bell and Mr. Doyle (subtitled, The Dark Beginnings of Sherlock Holmes), Bell, played by Ian Richardson, believes that one must "observe the small facts upon which large inferences depend."
Much better than the common, cheesy melodramas of the period,this one holds the interest better due to its inferences and unseen sub-plots, an early gem by director Archie Mayo, ahead of its time for its imaginative storyline, and great scene shots, a captivating film as a whole simply for standing out among the rest!
But we do have a wealth of experience from which to draw inferences.
Indeed, nothing in Keynes’ theory would allow such simplistic causal inferences.
Here are ten reasons why it doesn’t pay to diagnose the Chinese economy by drawing inferences from the experiences of others:Strategy.
Both inferences are potentially disastrous, not only for relations between West and Eastern Europe but, more importantly, for relations between Russia and the West.
This realization casts a new light not only on our measures of performance, but also on the inferences we make.
Many tasks that once required human intelligence – making connections and drawing inferences; recognizing patterns; tracing the implications of complex events – are now better handled by AI applications.
Furthermore, the market price would incorporate inferences made from the executive’s notice of the planned sale.
Were they misled by false inferences?
In principle, in a laboratory, we can conduct controlled experiments, and therefore make more reliable inferences.
Critics of experimental economics worry that subjects bring to experimental situations modes of thought determined outside of the experiment, and thus that the experiments are not as clean and the inferences not as clear cut as in the physical sciences.
So risk managers in banks applied the techniques of probability analysis to “value at risk” calculations, without asking whether samples of recent events really carried strong inferences for the probable distribution of future events.
Verbal statements about the perceived distance of the moon are described as inferences based on perceived size rather than descriptions of experience: "The Moon looks big so it must be close."
Unbound is not an explicitly partisan book, but it is easy to draw inferences for the current political season.
The best one can hope for is that they make visible efforts, however superficial, to remove misleading information or inferences from their sites.
Omnipresent devices that see, hear, read, and record our behavior produce a glut of data from which inferences, predictions, and recommendations can be made about our past, present, and future actions.
In other words, patients will soon have no choice but to receive personalized clinical horoscopes based on their own medical histories and inferences drawn from a growing pool of patient records.
For starters, it is critical to remember that big-data inferences are gleaned through statistics and mathematics, which demand their own form of literacy.