History gcse sources help

Inferring is easily done but just as easily misunderstood. Now I suggest answering the question backwards. First finding parts of the source and then inferring what it means. BUT the part in the source has to be seen. You cannot Infer in this section so visible things are only accepted. If it is a text I suggest only quoting it.

~into the effectiveness of the civil rights act

Eg. “In the south, my people deserve segregation to their negro slaves”- 1969

This shows that racism continued as it is dated in 1969 and the civil rights act was introduced in 1954

From this I can infer that the civil rights act was not effective in dealing with the racism in the south

The problem with this is irrelevant inference. E.g. in the context of the Civil Rights Act, it could be argued that the legislative intent (against which effectiveness ought to measured) was the end of legal racism in the South. Thus, the fact that the Civil Rights Act failed to shift public discourse could be considered irrelevant insofar as this was aim that the Act never set out to achieve.

Instead, inference is an intuitive skill: that is to say you can only infer information that is reasonably true or important. Arguably, the most important component of forming an inference is gaining a contextual understanding of the information your trying to infer from.

The problem with this is irrelevant inference. E.g. in the context of the Civil Rights Act, it could be argued that the legislative intent (against which effectiveness ought to measured) was the end of legal racism in the South. Thus, the fact that the Civil Rights Act failed to shift public discourse could be considered irrelevant insofar as this was aim that the Act never set out to achieve.

Instead, inference is an intuitive skill: that is to say you can only infer information that is reasonably true or important. Arguably, the most important component of forming an inference is gaining a contextual understanding of the information your trying to infer from.