extrapolating

• “By extrapolating from the census findings, the team worked out the odds of a star being orbited by smaller planets than those they could detect.”

  The Guardian: Our galaxy may contain billions of planets with the same mass as Earth

• “The fiction is based on extrapolating from the known facts of today's physics, chemistry, astronomy, etc.”

  May 2008

• “Clearly there are great problems in extrapolating anything from this and I do not mean to but the difference is striking.”

  Archive 2007-10-21

• “So extrapolating from the research, having had oral sex with more than 6 partners would raise the annual risk of oral cancer in a male to 48 per 100,000.”

  HPV and Oral Cancer

• ““Great, another loopy novelist in the Inkwell, extrapolating from a random headline in a trade journal,” you say.”

  Smart Mobs » Blog Archive » Everyware discussion on Well: new book about ubicomp

• “I mean, never mind that she could’ve been relying on metonymy in extrapolating the class (” really classy sites”) from a single instance (” TMZ”)!”

  Matthew Yglesias » Sweden is Neutral, O’Reilly is Stupid

• “That’s another error of wrongly extrapolating from a single anomaly to a bigger pattern.”

  Twitter Pretends They’ll Monetize Without Ads | Managing Greatness

• ““[T] he greater number” of Amersham’s ads were true, though some were false in extrapolating beyond the results of reliable, well-controlled studies.”

  Archive 2009-04-01

• “I’m extrapolating from a small sample of people I’ve met who are refugees from behind the Iron Curtain — including one family who changed their name to “McCarthy” when they got here, in honor of the Tailgunner — and the people I met when I ventured into the Soviet Bloc during the era of ‘detente’.”

  The Volokh Conspiracy » Taking the Washington Post to School

• “In New Jersey, extrapolating from the other racial categories, the best estimate for the Asian vote (which comprised 4% of the Democratic total) suggests 59%-41%, in Hillary’s favor.”

  VDARE.com: Blog Articles » Print » The “Imaginary Hip Black Friend” Voting Bloc

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