What is the difference between and inference and a prediction?

Question

I am in an honors English class and my teacher keeps telling me that I am making predictions, not inferences, like we are supposed to. What is the difference?

Answer 1

A prediction is when you are predicting/ using information to try and anticipate what will happen next looking forward.
An inference is when you are drawing a conclusion about what the author thinks but isn't actually saying by reading between the lines. For instance, if someone were to statements criticizing the current policies in Iraq, you might infer that they disapproved of the president's handling of the situation. They didn't actually say it but you might draw that out of the other things they said.

Answer 2

Inference Vs Prediction

Answer 3

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What is the difference between and inference and a prediction?
I am in an honors English class and my teacher keeps telling me that I am making predictions, not inferences, like we are supposed to. What is the difference?

Answer 4

Inference - the act of passing from one proposition, statement, or judgment considered as true to another whose truth is believed to follow from that of the former; the act of passing from statistical sample data to generalizations, usually with calculated degrees of certainty.

An inference proceeds from a known truth to another that may be presumed to follow logically from it; it leads to a logical conclusion that may be presumed to be true with a high degree of certainty. If the first premise is a known truth and the second premise logically follows from that first premise, then the conclusion inferred from those two premises could only be true, as well. Example:

* All men are rational (known truth).
* You are a man (presumed truth proceeding from the known truth).
* Therefore, you are rational (a logical inference with a high degree of certainty).

Contrast that with the this:

* All rational persons are men. (definitely "not")
* You are rational. (maybe)
* Therefore, you are a man. (i'm not sure at all)

A prediction is a declaration or indication in advance, a foretelling on the basis of observation, experience, or scientific reason. Consider this formulation:

* Only the exceptionally gifted and diligent in English, with the best chance to excel, get into the English honors class (a reasonable conclusion based on experience and observation).
* You are in the English honors class (a known fact).
* Chances are you will excel far more than others, if you just keep at it and never give up (prediction based on a known fact, guided by a reasonable conclusion based on experience and observation).

Hope this helps.

Answer 5

Predictions are guesses that are really based on anything. Inferences are guesses that are made using the facts of the case. Your teacher wants you to stop making blind guesses and assumptions and finds facts to back up your arguments.

Answer 6

hi

this is wht i think;

inferences; fact that you conclude finally after analysing the data or reasons stated with :
according to newtons law:
for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction

prediction; can be facts or statement that is plainly said or answered without much data or reasoning may be just answering as per your intuitions and it fact may not be sure or truthful like : natural disasters may take place int he future

hope this will quench your thirst!

good luck

Answer 7

Infer is to make assumptions based on the evidence. I do not know your Prof., but I would assume that they feel you are simply guessing, rather than using the data to inform you assumptions.