Research Methodology Concepts

noun a conclusion reached on the basis of evidence and reasoning

adjective relating to or involving inference; serving to infer or deduce

• The inferential statistics used in the research study helped draw conclusions from the data.
• I made an inferential guess based on the clues she gave me.
• I totally inferred that she was into him just by the way she was looking at him.
• His inferential reasoning led him to believe that she was hiding something.

noun a cognitive bias in which an observer's overall impression of a person influences their judgments about that person's character or properties

• The halo effect is a cognitive bias where a person's overall impression of someone influences their perceptions of that person's character.
• People tend to experience the halo effect when they assume that someone who is physically attractive must also be intelligent and kind.
• The halo effect is like when you automatically think someone is cool just because they have a lot of followers on social media.
• The halo effect of his charisma made it easy for him to win over the crowd.