Molly: Hmmm. Pattern-seeking involves observing, recording and analysing the data. These patterns give you clues that you can analyse and they can help you draw some conclusions.

Explain that when drawing conclusions from inferential results we often have to exercise good judgement on aspects other than the solitary confidence interval or p-value that we are interpreting; for ...

For example, a graph of mass produced against time, does not give you direct data to show how the rate of decay of milk changes with time. The data needs to be processed mathematically first.