Excellent writers like John Jannarone in the Wall Street Journal are therefore forced to make inferences.

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Or is it that investors make inferences about the quality of a firm in general by virtue of its CSR reporting?

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But it does track user activity, to make inferences and build a user profile, which is then used by marketers to target ads.

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General memories, or memories about a group of similar behaviors (like many games won, or many dates gone wrong) lead you to make unconscious inferences about your own traits, because they seem to reflect what you typically do.

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In particular, it does not make any policy inferences that rest on geographical considerations.

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The biggest storms of all have, however, been so rare in recorded history that it is almost impossible to make meaningful statistical inferences from them.

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What inferences can you make about the lack of representation of this population?

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In this case, the inferences are stunningly easy to make.

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