Inference: Video Analysis

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Inferences are viewed to be conclusion made for unknown situations based on known knowledge. Inferences are made based on facts or evidence such that one is certain about the occurrence of a particular event. Inferences can be made based on clues in the sense that the occurrence of a particular situation implies that an unknown situation, based on facts, is going to take place. Inferences are reliable as a result of experience or the occurrence of certain patterns that eventually lead to an event. They are also made based on observations such that a person is certain about the occurrence of an event. It is important to note that some judgments tend to be ignored which may result in complications and hence the need for being keen when making judgments. In synopsis, an inference is made through facts, a definition or an assumption. It refers to the product of a certain form of reasoning by which one observes the
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Her inferences turn out to be right at the end of the video by which the husband makes an attempt to leave. The video begins with a late night call which is made after both the wife and the husband are in bed. The wife questions who the caller is but the husband claims that it is a wrong number. She does not accept his answer and hence keeps on questioning him. She makes keen observations on his responses such as him heading to close the window and his persistence that he was not aware of the caller. The associated clues include the late night call from a stranger, the fact that the husband said that caller said nothing and then later claims that it was a man, and the window being shut after they had already gone to bed. The wife warns him with a gun after he tries to sneak out of the house and hence to imply that her inference is true. The fact that she immediately removed a gun implies that her inference was reliable on her husband trying to cheat on

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