We are bombarded on a daily basis with sweeping extrapolations about the abstract "consumer": their attitudes towards climate change, their expectations of brands and businesses and their purchasing intentions.
Current "scientific" population estimates are extrapolations from a statistical model, not real data.Nor do Inuit systematically overestimate polar-bear populations, as you suggested.
Mr Baumol's theory makes for scary extrapolations.
Many organisations realised how misleading were predictions based on straight-line extrapolations from the past.
A thorough study of options for such cuts in California, long a leader in energy efficiency, concluded that with today's technology and plausible extrapolations of it, 60% was the best that could be done.
Yet even with this leeway, there is reason to be pessimistic about hitting the target by 2030.The case that this goal is feasible rests on extrapolations from the economic performance of the past few decades.
I thought the same thing, but I've made my fair share of unfair extrapolations from my colleague's posts; it happens.
While doubtless imperfect, plausible model-based extrapolations such as a recent one from America's Centres for Disease Control and Prevention CDCC) suggest, in the absence of intervention, that there could be 1.4m cases in west Africa in the next three months.Not that Ebola will necessarily be contained in west Africa.
The most common argument is that the middle class matters because it does a lot of consuming.The new bourgeoisie has created an enormous market, even if you ignore wild extrapolations about the future.
For the 2003 war, the fact that some Iraqi units were bombed much more heavily than others makes extrapolations unreliable, and the large number of deserters complicates the calculations.
Judging from the winners' models, reliable extrapolations could be made from one protein to another so long as the two shared at least 30% of their amino-acid sequences.The researchers then set about analysing things at the domain level.
