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University of South Carolina
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BIO 101 | Intro to Biology
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2023
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Inferences a conclusion reached on the basis of evidence and reasoning. - Oxford Languages An inference is an educated conclusion based on what you already know. • influenced by your experiences/prior knowledge • these explanations may not be true Example: The food burned my tongue Inferences you can make: - The food is hot The food was just cooked The food was spicy While it makes logical sense to assume that the food was hot, the person could be talking about something that is lukewarm and spicy. Fill in the blanks with your own inferences: Students arrived to class sweaty because… The kids put on sweaters because… He did not eat the walnuts because… She drank a glass of juice because… The teacher read a book because… Hypothesis a working explanation or trial answer to a problem an “educated guess” can be written in the form of an “If..., then..., because...” statement is not necessarily proven correct just because data/results from one experiment supports it Example: If the girl eats only potato chips for a month straight, then she will a higher body fat percentage If you want to make your hypothesis more in depth you can add a because: If the girl eats only potato chips for a month straight, then she will a higher body fat percentage because the average bag of potato chips is over 50% fat It makes reasonable sense to assume that eating extremely high fat foods for an extended period of time would increase someone's body fat. You want your hypothesis to be believable, and on topic, so this would be a bad hypothesis if I was doing a study on thermodynamics.

Introduction to Biology Hypothesis and Infrences

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