Taking attendance in homebase today, I saw this:
There are two types of people in this world:
1) Those who can extrapolate from incomplete data
Looking for more, as in number 2, it struck me, and laughing out loud, I thought, you bet!
One of my pet peeves is the number of people who can't - or won't - infer. They refuse to stop and think, or maybe they've never been taught, to deduce the meaning of what's being said from both the stated and the implied information. Of course, there are times when, say, a person has been having a conversation in their head and begins in the middle (I am famous for that), but there are so many instances where people just miss the leap.
Comprehension skills are so important. When I was a teacher, the skills were front and center on my board right behind my desk. We practiced using them every day. I always told my students I didn't want to tell them how to think but to teach them to think. Extrapolation is one of the keys. (There are two people who were especially irked by my belief in inference. I smile remembering.)
Hats off to the eighth grade student who has the intelligence to wear that shirt and who understands this!
Knowledge
