Of course, such projections must acknowledge the small sample size – even in a season preceded by some semblance of training camp normalcy.
"A lot of times you're sitting in the meetings and discussing what's available and what you have to give up, and you're like, 'How much better is this, if at all, than what I've currently got in our rotation?' " Colon and Garcia have already exceeded the Yankees' projections, and Cashman acknowledged he was in "no-man's land" when trying to forecast their production down the stretch.
Whatever he was, he told me that one reason for his humor was to deflect projections; another, to acknowledge how people actually are and thus offer comic relief from dealing with human suffering.
On MSNBC, Tim Russert acknowledged that the projections can become political ammunition for candidates.
It was never a widely accepted idea, and besides, the magazine has since acknowledged that the projections in the story cited so often in this chapter were "spectacularly wrong".
Mark P. Berkman, an economist who was a lead author of the study, said that if the duty was 100 percent, 16,900 to 49,600 jobs could be lost, although he acknowledged that the projection assumed continued rapid growth in the solar business.
The group's skill at manipulating social media, for recruitment and projection of power, has been acknowledged even by enemies and rivals, who have poured resources into trying to dismantle, defuse – or in the case of other jihadi groups, emulate – its online success.
The campaign also acknowledged that its figures included projections of what it believed would happen in those states as their delegate selection processes continued in the coming weeks and even months.
Health policy experts have acknowledged some of the missed projections for Obamacare.
When questioned, officials acknowledged that the 37.6 million projection for 2001 was 1.8 million fewer visitors than they had predicted as recently as May.
