You’re a inference machine, you just don’t realize it! When your phone buzzes and you see a friend’s name, you infer they’re texting you—even though you haven’t read the message yet. When you smell coffee in the morning, you infer your roommate is up—unless it’s a coffee-scented candle, in which case you infer you need more sleep.
Heck, even your dog uses inference. Fluffy hears the crinkle of a treat bag and infers it’s snack time. He’s not wrong often, except when you’re just opening a bag of chips. Then he looks at you like you’ve betrayed him. That’s the face of a broken inference, my friend.
Inference Science
