TFY Chapter 4

1. You see a little girl pushing an elderly woman being push down Main Street in a large baby carriage.
Inference- You could see a little girl pushing an elderly woman but never see the girl pushing a woman in a carriage down the street.
2. Your best friend leaves you a note saying she has joined the Marines.
Inference- Perhaps your best friend needs a change from the life she is leading.
3. You have received no mail for the past two weeks.
Inference- Perhaps you moved to a different location and forgot to change your address.
4. A recent study found that men between fifty and seventy-nine years old married to woman one to twenty-four years younger tended to live longer or had a mortality rat 13 percent below the norm.
Inference- Maybe a woman help man by dieting and exercising.
5. The same study found men married to older women died sooner or had death rate that was 20 percent higher than the norm.
Inference- Men tend to eat a lot of unhealthy foods.
6. To state that "annual beef consumption in the U.S. is 96.8 pounds per capita in 1988, as compared to 11 pounds in China" is to make a generalization without facts.
False
7. To state the obvious is to opposed to what is thought or interpreted about what is seen.
True
8. Good thinking dose not continue to build inferences on top of inferences but stops whenever possible to cheek these inferences against the original facts or to find new ones.
True
9. One should always avoid making inferences in every kind of writing.
False
10. To state that the U.S. has that highest per capita use of motor vehicles in the world is to make a generalization without offering supporting facts.
True