User blog comment:DancePowderer/No Room at the Inn, Deductive Reasoning/@comment-2226235-20150612202422

This really amounts to active vs. passive audiences. Being an active audience means thinking about it and coming to our own conclusions as the story goes on, while a passive audience just waits for information to be given out. It's fine to be wrong occasionally, and in ambiguous cases where we're unlikely to get more information, we should just go with whichever option has the strongest argument/the most evidence for it.