Infererence lab

Nathanial McEwen


 Purpose
the purpose to this experiment is to make inferences based on observations about the mystery object in the bag


Materials
Paper bag that contains the mystery object. pen and paper  

Procedure
write down observations that the other person make when feeling the object in the paper and then try to make an inference about the object based on what the other person said and then try to sketch the object based on the inference having to feel it again if necessary and then try again to make an inference based on your sketch and previous inferences and then finally open the paper bag and compare the object to your sketch and inference.

Predictions    
I predict that the object in the bag should have some thing to do with biology


 Observation
Adam was the first person in the group to go his observation is as fallows
he said that the object was hard with bumps on the exterior and oddly shaped and had a hole in it and was about fist sized and was shaped close to a foot ball in shape we then sketched based on his observations and i mad an inference that it was a bone of some sort and after some discussion we opend the bag and observed that the object was a sea shell.

I then went and started feeling the object in my paper bag with the mystery object in it and mad an observation that the object was oddly shaped and jagged to touch on some parts but then smooth on other and had hole on both sides and gas a bridge that extended from it i also observed that it felt like bone. so we mad i sketch based on my observations and then again discussed what the object could be i mad an inference that the object had to be a skull of a small animal we then opend the bag an observed that it was indeed the skull of a beaver

Conclusion
I conclude that making observations with out being able to see the object can be kind of awkward and difficult. and inferences are not always accurate or true and that they are really just an educated guess