Those inclined to make straight-line extrapolations from the events of a few news cycles should read some history. |
This has, I have noted, involved some rather ludicrous distortions of evidence as well as grand extrapolations from limited bases of data. |
These ideas, their precursors, their extrapolations and their interpretations have been repeatedly turned over during the last 120 years. |
Post et al. showed that quartz rheology is sensitive to water fugacity, but the above extrapolations do not apply to identical values of water fugacity. |
We should not make unwarranted extrapolations of simulation results to real sequence data. |
Its projections are not forecasts but extrapolations of present trends. |