You have the following excerpt from a commentary on the school’s Annual Report:
“The state of Academics is deplorable. Only 98% of our students passed the Class X exam this year. Last year it was 98.5% and it was 99% in the year before that. This shows that our children are getting worse and worse at passing the Class X exam.
Not only that, the percentage of our topper in 2015 was 98.9%. In 2016, it became 97.5% and this year, it was only 96.9%.
This shows that overall score and top scores are both dwindling in our school. The children are not getting dumber, so our teachers are to blame.”
Is the above a Fact, Inference, or Judgement? Which is which? Why?
Answer in comments.
The percentages are facts. The idea that our children are scoring lesser is inference, but our teachers are not doing well is a judgement. We need to know more information – like is this the overall trend, or limited to our school only?