Fact or Inference
Fact or Inference
Beatrix Drummond
Everest University Online
“Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.” - Marcus Aurelius
In our current modern age, we have a tendency to pay less attention to the people we interact with, than we should. The conversations we have at home or at work might be less serious or deep, so are our relationships. Unfortunately, the lack of our will to think a situation over could lead us to incorrect statements and assumptions. The results are usually negative, and the conversations might end with misunderstanding or false information. People should pay more attention to the way they shape their words in order to gain better quality conversations and relationships.
In this essay, I am going to describe the difference between fact and inference through two conversations I recently had, to show that the usage of critical thinking can help us to improve our communication skills and our relationships with others as well.
A couple days ago, I had a conversation with a friend of mine from Hungary. We had a long chat on Skype because she wanted to hear about my life in details. She likes to talk about the life of the celebrities, so when we ran out of subjects, she mentioned the famous Hungarian-American producer Andrew G. Vajna who recently married a Hungarian television presenter Timea Palcsik. I did not know at that point where the conversation was going. She pointed out the fact that the beautiful woman Vajna married is almost thirty years younger than the producer himself. Suddenly, I realized how the conversation was going to end. My intentions were to make it faster, so I asked her about her opinion. I was not surprised when she made her statement: “Everybody knows that this marriage is fake, and the new wife just wants to be rich and famous, and Vajna needed a young and pretty lady by his side.”
The fact of this conversation was the news about the
Beatrix Drummond
Everest University Online
“Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.” - Marcus Aurelius
In our current modern age, we have a tendency to pay less attention to the people we interact with, than we should. The conversations we have at home or at work might be less serious or deep, so are our relationships. Unfortunately, the lack of our will to think a situation over could lead us to incorrect statements and assumptions. The results are usually negative, and the conversations might end with misunderstanding or false information. People should pay more attention to the way they shape their words in order to gain better quality conversations and relationships.
In this essay, I am going to describe the difference between fact and inference through two conversations I recently had, to show that the usage of critical thinking can help us to improve our communication skills and our relationships with others as well.
A couple days ago, I had a conversation with a friend of mine from Hungary. We had a long chat on Skype because she wanted to hear about my life in details. She likes to talk about the life of the celebrities, so when we ran out of subjects, she mentioned the famous Hungarian-American producer Andrew G. Vajna who recently married a Hungarian television presenter Timea Palcsik. I did not know at that point where the conversation was going. She pointed out the fact that the beautiful woman Vajna married is almost thirty years younger than the producer himself. Suddenly, I realized how the conversation was going to end. My intentions were to make it faster, so I asked her about her opinion. I was not surprised when she made her statement: “Everybody knows that this marriage is fake, and the new wife just wants to be rich and famous, and Vajna needed a young and pretty lady by his side.”
The fact of this conversation was the news about the