Extrapolating from one drug to an entire way of making medicines would be a mistake.
Extrapolating from its survey, Financial Fraud Action concludes that 380, 000 people could have become unwitting money mules.
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Are the men and women on the bleeding edge of music, technology, fashion and entertainment merely extrapolating from existing trends?
Some scientists, giving their imaginations free rein (and extrapolating from Earth's own sea creatures), have suggested filter-feeders, such as whales.
Extrapolating from the mouse data, you would need to keep your calorie intake to three-quarters of the amount recommended by dieticians.
Extrapolating from this, they calculate that an optimal strategy for surveying 90% of all protein domains would need 16, 000 carefully chosen targets.
However, he said there were big differences between the US and UK health systems, and so extrapolating from the American experience was not necessarily appropriate.
The exact number may never be established: after the first Gulf war, unreliable estimates were obtained by extrapolating from the number of destroyed Iraqi vehicles.
Extrapolating from the brain sizes and social networks of apes, Dr Dunbar suggested that the size of the human brain allows stable networks of about 148.
Since the vocal tract consists of soft tissue (and therefore does not fossilise), reconstructing it depends on extrapolating from measurements made at the bases of fossil skulls.
If one were to predict the nature of the bilateral relationship over the next few decades by extrapolating from trends during any six-year period between 1978 and 2006, expectations would be quite positive.
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Extrapolating from North Carolina, perhaps other states with an abundance of energy-producing manure and lower-than-average energy costs (like Iowa) can expect to see interest from other tech giants and their fuel cells.
Extrapolating from the area's limited renown for an overabundance of gophers, whose destructive burrowing has always brought armed retaliation from local farmers, the museum used stuffed gophers to portray daily life in Torrington.
He is, of course, extrapolating from the current condition of the 70 companies Berkshire Hathaway controls, including Burlington Northern, a slew of utilities and Iscar, the giant global machine tool company, headquartered in Israel.
Extrapolating from this result, Dr Mileikowsky thinks that in a meteorite with a diameter of 20cm it would take about 1m years for such a colony to be reduced to a millionth of its original size.
Extrapolating from these results, they think that an orbiting zone plate measuring somewhere between 15 metres and 40 metres across will be enough to distinguish the spectrum of an Earthlike planet at a distance of 30 light-years.
Extrapolating from Dr Freund's laboratory experiments, the strain in a real-life geological fault such as the San Andreas could, as it shifted, generate hundreds of thousands of amperes per cubic kilometre in a fluctuating pattern that would cause very low frequency radio waves to be emitted, thus disrupting the ionosphere.
MetLife conducted the study by analyzing news articles that referenced financial abuse of the elderly and extrapolating data from the findings.
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It is an efficient way to tease out trends and sentiments by extrapolating information from a relatively small sample group, as long as the sample is representative of the population that you want to learn more about.
But investors might want to be careful about extrapolating too much from Genentech's legal battles.
Tracy Kelly, of the charity Diabetes UK, cautioned against extrapolating to humans from studies on rats.
The three economists looked at actual portfolio flows during the crises, and compared them with the flows they would have expected from extrapolating past trends.
Some of the anxieties in the stock are coming from analysts mistakenly extrapolating the third stage to the fourth stage.
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But extrapolating real-world conclusions from that finding is difficult.
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