verb
- past tense and past participle of misinfer; to draw an incorrect conclusion from evidence or reasoning
Usage: formal
Examples
- The detective misinferred the suspect’s guilt from circumstantial evidence.
- She misinferred his intentions from his brief email response.
- The data was misinferred, leading to flawed policy recommendations.
- Students often misinferred the author’s meaning from isolated quotes.
- The jury misinferred causation from mere correlation in the statistics.
- He misinferred her silence as agreement when she was actually confused.