Observing, collecting data, surveying, and making inferences are all examples of an attempt to:

Observing, collecting data, surveying, and making inferences are ways to find out who an audience is and what its members know, believe, or need. That process is learning about your audience. Analyzing diversity and making presentational adaptations may follow from what you learn, but they are not the information-gathering effort described here.

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