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.

Our galaxy may contain billions of planets with the same mass as Earth Ian Sample 2010

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

May 2008 2008

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

Do you like it hard? 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 Newmania 2007

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

BNP Party Poltical Broadcasts ? Newmania 2007

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 aka TBTAM 2007

“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 2006

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 2009

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

Twitter Pretends They’ll Monetize Without Ads | Managing Greatness 2009

“[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 Rebecca Tushnet 2009