Chapter 4 - TFY - Inferences - Exercise

“TFY”: Chapter 4 – Inferences – Exercise

Drawing Inferences from Evidence – Exercise – Page 108:
Read the following scenarios and think of three inferences you could make to explain each situation:

1. Your neighbors have regular habits and spend a lot of time at home. One day you notice that no lights have appeared in their house in the evenings for at least a week.
1. Maybe the neighbors are going to bed early… maybe they do something busy.
2. The neighbors are move out because they hate this town.
3. The neighbors are all murdered.


2. In an airport waiting room, you sit down next to a nun wearing a dark blue dress, starched white collar, and a starched white headdress. You notice she is reading Playboy magazine.
1. She is fake nun.
2. She is lesbian.
3. She is bad ass nun.

3. Your child, age four, usually has a good appetite. However, she says no this morning when you offer her a dish of applesauce.
1. She is not ready.
2. She can but she doesn’t want it.
3. She stupid and spoil brat.

4. You are on a Greyhound bus. A man get son and sits beside you. He is carrying an expensive briefcase, although he is shabbily dressed, unshaven, and perspiring heavily. When you suggest he place his briefcase on the rack overhead, he refuses, saying he doesn’t mind holding it in his lap.
1. That was a gift of his and he prefers to hold onto it.
2. He was running late and did not have time to straighten out his attire.
3. He stole that briefcase and ran to catch the bus.

5. You are looking in your wife’s closet for your missing shoe, and you notice a new and expensive man’s sports jacket hanging there.
1. Maybe your wife bought that for you as a gift.
2. Maybe it's her jacket and the true is your wife was a man who have sex transformation.
3. Maybe she cheats you.

6. After a class you go to see your professor about an error in addition on your test score. You explain to him respectfully that 100 minus 18 is 82, not 79. He tells you to get the hell out of his office.
1. He is asshole.
2. He stupid.
3. He is a failure pathetic worm of human being.

7. You are driving through a valley on a spring morning in a heavy rainstorm. You are on a two-lane highway, and you notice that only about half the cars that pass you head-on have their lights on.
1. Maybe people lazy to turn off light.
2. Maybe people forgot to turn their lights on.
3. Maybe the people stupid.