macroinference

plural macroinferences

1. An inference that is based on multiple small bits of data, each of which contribute a supporting microinference.

   Assessing the optimality of external borrowing is a difficult proposition indeed, but this need not keep us from reaching macroinferences.

   1991, D. Das, Korean Economic Dynamism, page 172

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   Thus the crucial criterion for selecting middle-level units for macroinferences is the scope of the consequences of behaviors in the microcontext.

   1983, Sociology Toward the Year 2000: The Sociological Galaxy, page 28

   Macroinference is not a process of firing a symbolic production but rather of qualitative state change in a dynamical system, such as a phase transition.

   2012, Paul Smolensky, “One the Proper Treatment of Connectionism”, in David J. Cole, James H. Fetzer, Terry L. Rankin, editors, Philosophy, Mind, and Cognitive Inquiry, page 197

   The everyday settings alluded to above are of interest because they make it possible for organizations to achieve their own macro-inferences about their own day-to-day activities.

   2014, Karin Knorr Cetina, A.V. Cicourel, Advances in Social Theory and Methodology, page 66