Fact vs. Inference

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Fact vs. Inference
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Fact

• An Observation
• a thing that has been done
• something shown to exist
• something known to have existed

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Inference

• Educated guess as to what happened based on facts
  (observations)
• Conclusion
• deduction
• judgment.

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Can you guess what the item is?List some facts
Hints
A lot of you uses a type of this every day
Name Brand
First Touch
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IPOD Touch

• Magnifying lens picture may have told you it
  could surf the web
• Part of the star may have reminded you of one
  youve seen
• Colors sometimes give it away

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What are the facts?

1. Deals with Algebra
2. Its hard
3. It has numbers on the cover
4. 1 2
5. 1 3
6. 2 3
7. None of the above

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What are the inferences?

1. He has something to do with baseball
2. He is wearing a uniform
3. He has gloves on
4. He just hit a ball
5. 1 2
6. 1 4
7. 3 4

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What inference best fits?

1. Wants to learn to skydive
2. Plane is going to crash
3. Going to fix the plane

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