PPT-Inferences from Litigated Cases

Dan Klerman amp YoonHo Alex Lee Conference on Empirical Legal Studies October 24 2013 Motivating Questions Can empirical legal scholars use the plaintiff trial win rate to draw inferences about the law. B5.3 1 Comprehension B5.3 MAKING INFERENCES ( BEGINNING LEVEL ) Drawing Inferences You have been drawing inferences all your life. You began to make many kinds of inferences when you were a baby. Yo Through . Pictures. What can we infer about this person just from their grocery list?. Possible Inferences. They have a dog (rawhide bones). They are hygienic/cleanly (Toothpaste, . Qtips. , wipes, Dish detergent). Intriguing Literature Forces the Reader to Ask Questions. Discuss. Why would an author choose to leave information out of his story? . 2. How do we, as readers, reliably fill in this information? . To Make an Inference . Dan . Klerman. & Yoon-Ho Alex Lee. Law and Economic Theory Conference. December 7, 2013. MOTIVATING QUESTION. Take . an area of private law. .. Suppose in . State A. , the legal . standard . governing liability is . Legislative RecommendationsMost Serious ProblemsMost Litigated IssuesCase AdvocacyAppendices MLI#4 SUMMARYPursuant to IRC What is an Inference?. An inference is something that you conclude based partly on evidence and partly on your own knowledge. . When you make an inference, you read something, add what you know to it, and draw a conclusion.. inferences.Claim (Popper): Scientific inferences are deductive; so science does not face a method only describes the past performance must claimthat science is concerned entirely with explanation, n Grades 3 – 5. © 2013 Texas Education Agency / The University of Texas System. “ Inferring is the bedrock of comprehension, not only in reading. We infer in many realms. Our life clicks along more smoothly if we can read the world as well as text. Inferring is about reading faces, reading body language, reading expressions, and reading tone as well as reading text.”. An.  inference is an idea or conclusion that's drawn from evidence and reasoning. . An . inference.  is an educated . guess.. When reading a passage: 1) Note the facts presented to the reader and 2) use these facts to draw conclusions about . Mrs. . Davidovicz’s. . 2011 – 2012 Class. GPS: . GPS: ELA3R3 The student uses a variety of strategies to gain meaning from grade-level text. The student. f. Makes judgments and inferences about setting, characters, and events and supports them with evidence from the text. . How do you make them. ?. What is textual evidence?. Copyright © 2015 The Teacher Writing Center, a division of SG Consulting, Inc. .  www.grammargallery.org. Warm-Up. Look at the picture. . What do you see? . E. vidence…. 1/15/2015. Making Inferences. We make inferences all the time whether we realize it or not. Good readers make inferences while reading when we predict what will happen next or ask ourselves why character is behaving a certain way.. Bell Work- Start a new page, and answer this in your notebook. . . Look at this picture. In your science notebook, write a one paragraph story that explains how this picture came to be. Use the facts you see in the picture to help write your story. . Ernest Davis. Cognitum. 2016. July 11, 2016. TACIT . Toward Annotating Commonsense Inferences in Text. First text: Theft of the Mona Lisa. On a mundane morning in late summer in Paris, the impossible happened. The Mona Lisa vanished. On Sunday evening, August 20, 1911, Leonardo da Vinci's best-known painting was hanging in her usual place on the wall of the Salon .