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Facts and inferences

Learn the difference between something recorded and something predicted from clues.

Five short factoids
Learn with CluzyFacts and inferences

A clue is not a fact

An inference is a conclusion drawn from clues. Think “probably interested in travel,” rather than “booked a flight.”

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Prediction or history

A prediction about what you might do is different from a record of what you did. Your profile should make that distinction clear.

Learn with CluzyFacts and inferences

Prediction is not certainty

A prediction estimates what might happen from available clues. Even a plausible estimate is not a promise about your behavior.

Learn with CluzyFacts and inferences

A pattern is not a motive

Shopping records may show what you bought without explaining why. A pattern of purchases does not reveal every reason behind them.

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An estimate has limits

An estimated age range is not the same as a verified birth date. Both may appear in a profile, but they mean different things.

About the Look Up eyecon

Pauses to evaluate what is known and what is inferred.

Both rectangular pupils move upward and to the right.