Word: inference
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Frequently, Ferguson says, teachers misread signals from black students. "The course work is rigorous at these schools, even in nonhonors classes, and I think many of these kids are struggling," he explains. "Some of the behavior that others infer as laziness is really a way of playing it off. If the work is hard and they're not doing well, in the students' minds it's better to act like they don't care rather than acknowledge that they're trying hard and still can't do it." The problem becomes more damaging when teachers interpret such behavior as indifference...
Donald believes he is successful in executing such an intimate portrait. “Distinguish between what we know based on facts, what we think we know based on reports, and what we infer from our general knowledge of a man’s character,” he says. “Support your arguments [and] label speculative what is speculative...
...unmistakable traces of primitive feathers on its tail and jaw. Those filaments, which are about three-quarters of an inch long and branched like modern feathers, are the first direct evidence that tyrannosaurs sported plumage. Because Dilong paradoxus is one of the earliest tyrannosaurs, Norell and his colleagues infer that its larger, more advanced relatives, including T. rex, must have had feathers for at least part of their life span...
Professor of Anthropology and of African and African American Studies J. Lorand Matory said that “one could infer by common sense” why Bobo and Morgan left...
...bike, etc. we learn that Kochalka and his wife are trying to have a baby. Whatever sort of important discussions they may have had about this are only cursorily touched on in the "diary." Even the moment they learn she is pregnant goes unrecorded. We have to infer it from a strip about her morning sickness. But the delights of the book are in Kochalka's endearingly quirky personality and simple, but not uncrafted graphical style. We could take lessons from his focus on being in the moment...