Scientist: CO2 not causing global warming... Nov 13, 2009
Man oh man, would that be a period in which the Global Warmers would predict the end of earth as we know it, by extrapolation of the temperature. Statistics over less than 500 years can and do lead to wrong conclusions, and that is a fact. (The Drudge Report)
Letter to The President: # 4 Nov 5, 2009
The current brief seeks to bring home a few take-aways from the lessons of the past few decades, based on summation and extrapolation of observations extending at least a century and a half into the past. Two significant forces are explored: IT policy, especially with regard to adoption of free and open source software, and learner-focused education. (Ghana Web, Ghana)
CHAT TRANSCRIPT: James Healey answers your questions Oct 31, 2009
5/CVT Legacy, and whatever extrapolation I can do between it and the Outback I drove, I'd say the Legacy's lighter weight shows up in better handling and faster acceleration. Legacy's in the hopper for a future Test Drive column. (USA Today -- Money)
`Jobs Created or Saved' Is White House Fantasy: Caroline Baum Oct 29, 2009
An extrapolation of what would have happened without the fiscal stimulus isnt much consolation to the 9. 8 percent of the workforce that is. (Bloomberg -- Columnists)
China's decade? Don't bet on it Oct 14, 2009
These predictions generally are based on simple extrapolations of recent trends in GDP growth in China and the United States ... But is such extrapolation sensible. (MSNBC -- Business)
Generation 100 Oct 9, 2009
All of which shows the problem with extrapolation. Imagination. (BBC News -- UK)
In ‘Capitalism,’ Moore takes aim at economic oppressors Oct 2, 2009
But, really, those kinds of challenges don t suit his brand of entertainment, which often relies on conjecture and extrapolation to rouse or infuriate. Moore can turn a kernel of truth into a barrel of popcorn. (Boston Globe)
From bear to bear Sep 30, 2009
And if the nuances of the past 20 years (or more) argue against extrapolation, I contend that the emergence of the government finance bubble only further complicates drawing historical inferences. First of all, massive monetary and fiscal stimulus has supported system-wide incomes, spending, and corporate revenues. (Asia Times Online)
Ask the pilot Sep 25, 2009
Take, for example, this bogus extrapolation: "A study of office buildings found that the transmission of contagious diseases increases significantly when a large percentage of air is recirculated," she notes. "It seems logical to apply this finding to the airline cabin environment.". (Salon)
Leading the way Sep 23, 2009
And yet our governments wish to spend hundreds of billions of dollars based on preditions from the extreme extrapolation of models of poorly understood phenomenon. We are doomed, and not from AGW in the first instance. (BBC News -- Americas)
Busting A Myth About Roe v. Wade. Sep 17, 2009
Thus, the following extrapolation from Blackmun's language (on the same website) is clearly wrong ... " Blackmun is not seriously entertaining personhood; it's clear from the context (and from the rest of the Roe opinion) that he rejects it as nonsense. He is not saying that exceptions are "unconstitutional" and never uses such language. The urban legend has it exactly backwards: The Texas statute does not define the meaning of the 14th Amendment; the 14th Amendment defines the validity of the... (CBS News)
Rock stars slam disconnection plan for pirates Sep 8, 2009
The British Government came out with figures claiming 7 million Britons were illegal file sharers, but this was revealed by the BBC this week to be an extrapolation from responses of just 136 people. Comments. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Technology)
U.S. Auto Sales Post First Gain Since 2007 as Rebates Boost Ford, Toyota Sep 2, 2009
The rate, known as SAAR, is an estimate of full-year deliveries based on an extrapolation from any given month. U.S. auto sales averaged 16. (Bloomberg -- US)
Ford, Toyota, Honda lead US sales to first gain since 2007 Sep 2, 2009
The rate, known as SAAR, is an estimate of full-year deliveries based on an extrapolation from any given month. US auto sales averaged 16. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Business)
Health care reform needed Aug 25, 2009
I tried wording my statement to show that such a conclusion is an extrapolation, as opposed to absolute experience. I probably could have done a better job of wording it, and I accept that the argument, without more scholarly backing, is weak in your eyes. (Logan Herald Journal, UT)
Battling websites show city, union differences Aug 20, 2009
org - now mercifully gone) that was rife with half-truths, mis-statements, rumor, innuendo, and extrapolation designed to embarrass the university. It was some of the most shameful propagandizing I've ever seen and I fear that tone is coming to Palo Alto sooner or later. (Palo Alto Online, CA)
Time to get real Aug 20, 2009
I am scratching my head at the relevance of this, as it seems to imply that he agrees with me that an unforeseen, out-of-nowhere "Black Swan Event" with catastrophic results will always swamp simplistic statistical forecasts and backward-looking extrapolation methods. After re-reading his remarks, I realize he is saying that if I can't forecast share prices a week in advance, then I can't forecast the economy a year in advance. (Asia Times Online)
County's unemployment continues upward trend Jul 22, 2009
Lou wrote on Jul 21, 2009 7:46 PM:" Yep. It's going to go higher still. However, trend line extrapolation is silly, especially when you start talking about 65% per year increases. At that rate, we will all be unemployed in the year 2016.All trends reverse. Econ 101 ". liznbaker wrote on Jul 20, 2009 9:45 AM:" The statement you made regarding the change in the unemployment rate is inaccurate:You wrote, 'San Joaquin County's unemployment rate in June grew to 15.5 percent, which is 3.7 percent... (Lodi News Sentinel, CA)
Hoax being driven by extremists Jul 8, 2009
Doug Nation wrote on Jul 7, 2009 3:22 PM:" Roger, I believe your extrapolation of Beer's Law at extreme concentrations to all concentrations of CO2 is not valid. IR absorption, along with being able to reveal some important details about molecular structure, can also be used (and is often used) to determine concentrations over a relatively large ranges with very linear (or at least low order polynomial) responses. The magnitude of those linear ranges, of course, is dependant on the compound and... (Missoulian, MT)
Editorial: Cap-and-trade dispute shows deeper problem Jul 1, 2009
According to media reports, that figure, backed by House Minority Leader John Boehner, R-Ohio, is an extrapolation based on an MIT study. That study, however, was based on a bill from the last session of Congress, not the current "cap-and-trade" bill. (Athens Banner-Herald)
Politicians learn from drug dealers Jun 30, 2009
Contrary to popular pubtard belief, while Sotomayor was on the panel, you really get no extrapolation of her thought process in that the opinion which of course you didnt read but neither did your nutbag attorneys in the Senate, was eight (8) sentences long which is the trouble when a judge and their law clerk wont take ownership of an opinion that actually costs many thousands of dollars to litigate. The 2nd circuit refused to take the opinion en banc saying they thought it didnt merit... (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Opinion)
House Passes Global Warming Bill Jun 27, 2009
I'm not talking about anecdotal evidence or engineering extrapolations: I WANT PROOF ... You cross a bridge based on extrapolation of existing scientific understanding ... Global Warming is an extrapolation. (CBS News)
Market rally may prove deceptive Jun 26, 2009
First, it would be unwise to make any linear extrapolation from the FII inflows seen so far. In 2008-09, foreign investors fled the Indian market just as they did other emerging markets. (India Times)
Malaysia tries foreconomic reset Jun 19, 2009
While the patterns of the chart are hard to read, in part because of the destructive influence of the Asian financial crisis at the end of the 1990s, the most likely extrapolation of inferred current trends could bring it up as high eventually as 1,410, which (coincidence or not) matches the next highest resistance below the 1,516 mark from January last year. Technical indicators, however, suggest some mild short-term weakness. (Asia Times Online)
Obama May Grab for Guns May 22, 2009
The treaty would pretty clearly would require, without a whole lot of extrapolation, a regulation of all firearms in the United States, said Pratt. Called the Inter-American Convention Against the Illicit Manufacturing of and Trafficking in Firearms, Ammunition, Explosives and Other Related Materials, the legislations bans are multitudinous. (Townhall.com)
What is an earnings surprise? May 20, 2009
The earnings expectation may be derived from either a simple extrapolation from the historical trend or based on analysts forecasts and consensus. When the earnings expectation for a company is based on historical results, it means that the market is expecting the established income or profit trend for the company or industry in the past to continue into the future. (The Star Online, Malaysia -- Business)
Newsweek: Can American firms succeed in China? May 16, 2009
It's always dangerous simply to forecast by extrapolation, but the trends are undeniable. If GM's monthly China sales increase 7 percent from current levels and the carmaker's U.S. monthly sales decrease by 7 percent from current levels, then GMmore accurately, GM and its joint-venture partnerswill be selling more cars in China than in GM's home country. (MSNBC -- Business)
General Tso, Meet Colonel Sanders May 15, 2009
It's always dangerous simply to forecast by extrapolation, but the trends are undeniable. If GM's monthly China sales increase 7 percent from current levels and the carmaker's U.S. monthly sales decrease by 7 percent from current levels, then GMmore accurately, GM and its joint venture partnerswill be selling more cars in China than in GM's home country. (Slate)
May Top 250 re-rankings May 15, 2009
If all rankings are best guesses, preseason rankings include the most amount of speculation, extrapolation, personal bias and, well, what we like to call "SWAG," a "scientific, wild-ass guess." The point of those rankings were to help you draft a team that could compete in 2009. Hopefully, we accomplished that. (ESPN -- Baseball)
State to MARTA: Your wants can wait Apr 9, 2009
Pure fabrication and extrapolation ... More evidence of extrapolation and conflation on your part. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Opinion)
Buttonwood: Minsky's moment Apr 3, 2009
Investors, banks, companies and consumers all tend to be guilty of the sin of extrapolation; they assume the future will be like the recent past. After several years of steadily growing output and low inflation, people develop a misguided confidence that such benign conditions will continue. (The Economist)
New culture: Cruel joke on fatherless kids Mar 22, 2009
The is pure inflationary extrapolation. Has no meaning, no substance; it has not truth, only empty rhetoric. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Opinion)
Weststar Confirms Saskatchewan Coal in Drill Core Mar 18, 2009
Company president, Mitchell Adam states, "Although the drilling conditions and type of rig used were not ideal, we were very pleased to reconfirm the historic coal intersection from the 1994 drilling and to further intersect a coal zone a kilometer to the south. The similarity in depth of the two core holes bodes very well for the future drilling and extrapolation of a continuous coal seam within the Tobin Lake property. We are also very encouraged to return with the second phase of drilling to... (CCNMatthews Press Releases)
Northern Dynasty launches new website Mar 14, 2009
" Since acquiring mineral rights to Pebble back in 2001, Northern Dynasty and subsequently the Pebble Partnership have expanded known mineral resources by 900%. An updated mineral resource estimate released December 4, 2008 indicates that, at a 0.30% copper equivalent (CuEQ)(1) cut-off, the Pebble deposit comprises: - 5.1 billion tonnes of Measured and Indicated Mineral Resources grading 0.77% CuEQ, and containing 48 billion pounds of copper, 57 million ounces of gold, and 2.9 billion pounds of... (PR Newswire)
Ruiz sees 'flight to value' Mar 10, 2009
But, he said, the electronics business will be different, and things that will be successful will not be an extrapolation of things that worked in the past. Ruiz outlined a "flight to value," in consumer behavior that he said was best illustrated by the success of the netbook or net PC, which has enabled companies like Taiwan's Acer Inc. to rise in prominence. (EETimes)
COMMENT : It's Only Getting Better Mar 7, 2009
The paucity of reliable data means that it is more difficult to gain an exact picture of matters as they stand today, but extrapolation is not difficult. Iraq and the Afghanistan/Pakistan morass are the only new major conflicts to have flared up in the intervening years. (India Times, India)
ABCNEWS: Obama's 'mischaracterization of data'... Mar 6, 2009
The cost of health care now causes a bankruptcy in America every thirty seconds," Obama said at the opening of his White House forum on health care reform. The problem: That claim, based on a 2001 survey, is simply unsupportable. The figure comes from a 2005 Harvard University saying that 54 percent of bankruptcies in 2001 were caused by health expenses. We reviewed it internally and knocked it down at the time; an academic reviewer did the same in 2006. Recalculating Harvards own data, he... (The Drudge Report)
Back-breaking debt Mar 5, 2009
There are many things that scare me in this world, but none is more horrendous than the short extrapolation that came out a few years after government debt went from 78% of GDP in one year to 100% the next. Fortunately, nothing is more soothing than the security of gold, time-tested for over 4,000 years and going strong. (Asia Times Online)
Gold lights up Obama errors Feb 25, 2009
By extrapolation, Bernanke's $1 trillion subprime loan will create another 4 million jobs. The combined fiscal and monetary stimuli could create more than 8 million jobs. (Asia Times Online)
Obama, an economic unilateralist Feb 18, 2009
Imagination also fails in the case of China, not because extrapolation of present trends is so frightening, but rather because economic growth cannot possibly continue at the pace of the past 10 years. China is a different country than it was 30 years ago, and it will be a different country in another 30 years. (Asia Times Online)
New insight into why gambling is so attractive to some Feb 16, 2009
"By linking psychological and neurobiological accounts of gambling, these data inform our understanding of gambling behavior within society, and by extrapolation, the capacity of gambling to become addictive and pathological.". Would you like to for our weekly. (News-Medical.net)
Hundreds went to class armed, S.F. study finds Feb 14, 2009
About 21,000 students (out of 28,000 enrolled) participated in the middle and high school safety surveys, and their answers seemed to validate previous results from surveys that relied on much smaller sample sizes and statistical extrapolation. But the raw numbers brought home the daily reality of guns and other alarming conditions in the city's middle and high schools. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Rasmussen: Three Times More See Pro-Obama Over Pro-McCain Bias Feb 8, 2009
In mid-October, by our back-of-the-envelope extrapolation, every issue of Newsweek will feature His Self-Importance on the cover. Shortly thereafter, if our calculations are correct, the magazine will be forced to appear more frequently-twice a week, at first, and as a rebranded Newsdaily by early November, in order to accommodate the increasingly frequent need of editors to showcase Barack-the-Transcendent on their cover. (MediaResearch.org)
