Even though they will not normally be told what the experimenter is hoping or expecting to find before they take part, most experimental subjects will do their best to infer or guess these expectations or hopes from the demand characteristics of the situation, and will often be fairly successful.
The term 'cognition' is used by the Naiyāyikas to refer to any intentional (sa-viṣayaka; object-directed) mental state, including states of perceiving, inferring, doubting, guessing, remembering, etc., but excluding desiring, hoping, suffering, etc. (cf. Matilal 1968: 7 8).
This can lead to effective give-and-take rather than reacting according to what you think you hear by inferring and guessing.
Baidu's tech in this new restaurant, however, is all about guessing what you want before you can even ask; image recognition hardware installed at the KFC will scan customer faces, seeking to infer moods, and guess other information including gender an age in order to inform their recommendation.
The first study of design drawing symbols aims to determine whether and to what extent it is possible to infer, interpret, or even guess what a designer was thinking about by looking at the drawings she has made.
These are audiences Facebook can reliably deliver thanks to data volunteered by its users, while other ad exchanges might have to guess or infer about who fits an advertiser's desired demographic.
Assessments of the leadership of a health facility, for example, often allow one to guess or infer other features of the facilities.
Without knowing, it would be a good guess to infer from the information that it is 'fed' the posts, as in an RSS feeder.
"So if you are on Facebook talking about the Republican primary debates, people might be able to infer conclusions and make guesses".
The comprehensive knowledge-based system allows users to input sensory descriptions as a query to infer possible resemblances of guesses to the real subject.
