Word: inference
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...series of lost chances, of doors closing, until some unseen prompter whispers a final word in your ear: "Die." The apparent bleakness of the film's ending - which is the ending we all must face - led many observers at Cannes, where the film had its world premiere, to infer that Kaufman's mood was no less morose than Caden's. "At times," wrote a reviewer in the Times of London, "it feels more like a suicide note than a movie." (That wouldn't be a first for this author. His 2005 audio play Hope Leaves the Theater ends with...
...author Benjamin C. Campbell, a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Companies should consider hiring more women or older men, he said, because lower testosterone levels may lead to less-risky investments. Apicella cautions, though, that the results are meant to show a correlation rather than to infer causality. “It could be that having more testosterone makes you more risky, we just don’t know yet,” Apicella said. “That’s what we are looking...
...People infer that if something on a menu is difficult to understand or hard to read that it takes great skill and effort to prepare," says Song, a Ph.D. candidate in psychology at the University of Michigan. "When I go to an expensive French restaurant, I can hardly pronounce the words on the menu, so I take for granted that it's expensive because it's not comprehensible...
...liberal arts education, it can no longer afford to ignore the growing importance of mathematics and statistics. Literacy as a prerequisite to good citizenship in modern society must expand its demands, such that even scholars of postcolonial theory or adherents of Rawls remember how to manipulate simple derivatives and infer conclusions from a statistical t-test...
...Guido. Kaufman says that life is a series of lost chances, of doors closing, until some unseen prompter whispers a final word in your ear: "Die." The apparent bleakness of the film's ending - which is the ending we all must face - led many Cannes observers to infer that Kaufman's mood was no less morose than Caden's. "At times," wrote a reviewer in the Times of London, "it feels more like a suicide note than a movie." (That wouldn't be a first for Kaufman. His 2005 audio play "Hope Leaves the Theater" ends with the character Charlie...