Sentence examples for bad inferences from inspiring English sources

Such conditions, once identified, would distinguish good inferences from bad inferences.

Its instances include bad inferences like the following: some patient is sick, and some doctor is a liar; so some patient is happy.

Finally, since an argument is an expression of an inference, and to that extent, expressed in a language, it is natural to use the forms of linguistic expressions to identify forms of inferences and arguments and thereby to distinguish forms of good inferences and arguments from forms of bad inferences and arguments.

But this form is exemplified by the bad inference 'Juliet kicked Romeo; so Juliet kissed Romeo'.

This bad inference cannot share its form with the superficially parallel but impeccable variant: that dog is a mutt, and that mutt is yours; so that dog is your mutt.

"There are endless possibilities for doing bad statistical inferences," said Persi Diaconis, a statistician at Stanford University.

There is still much future work: in particular, we are currently limited in part due to bad quartet inferences.

Their surprise will be greater, Dr. Berger added, if they fail to recognize the shortcomings of e-mail, including bad information and wrong inferences.

"So you can look at three or four cases and try to draw an inference about bad priests and you would be wrong.

A good (i.e. bad!) example of erroneous causal inference is the well-known Google Flu Trends study, matching search terms and flu propensity; the structurally unrelated matches were much too numerous (Lazer et al. 2014).

And since Mr. Klein was there at the time, and now works for News Corporation, well, if we layer inference upon inference, the totality just smells bad.