Prediction in changes in tendencies is likely to miss concerning extrapolative methods.

Other programming includes site specific Extrapolative Projects in the field, and special focus thematic study areas.

"But I do have an extrapolative faculty.

She said, "Will you share your data with me so that I may make an extrapolative model of Phaethon's mind.

This book is not extrapolative.

Other than your biblical research, you have specialized in socio-political studies and have earned a reputation as an extrapolative statistician.

A logical extrapolative faculty."

Phaethon set the routine to concentrate only upon the more important figures here, and to disregard extrapolative patterns that strange-looped into self-referencing sets.

She insists that science-fiction writing is not "extrapolative," but rather, it is describing an overarching truth that the author reveals in an often complex and ambiguous way.

But Ballard, especially in the early part of his career, also wrote excellent extrapolative science fiction on social themes, and this haunting story is one of his finest.

I think he took a cold extrapolative look at the future and decided that if the world did blow itself up over the issue of space, it would seriously restrict his political career.

Anthony Boucher received the collection enthusiastically, describing the two novellas included as "models absolute of extrapolative with and insight" while finding the shorter stories "of almoist comparable quality."

Strictly extrapolative works of science fiction generally arrive about where the Club of Rome arrives: somewhere between the gradual extinction of human liberty and the total extinction of terrestrial life.

Juggling all these factors into any meaningful extrapolative program was more than anyone had yet accomplished to Sax's satisfaction, so he had resorted to his usual solution; he was trying to do it himself.

A Fool's Errand The Gethenian Calendar and Clock Introduction SCIENCE FICTION ISoften described, and even defined, as extrapolative.

The green arrow showing the Lord Vanek's vector had grown until it was beginning to show the purple of relativistic distortion around its sensitive extrapolative tip: the ship was already nearing half a percent of lightspeed, a dangerous velocity.

"It's the kind of stoppage as if the extrapolative element of this device-what you've been calling the computer-had encountered a logical contradiction, so that further extrapolations from this point TIME STORM would result in increasing error.

People who like this branch will tell you it is the only subdivision that justifies the word science, and that everything else is simple fantasy; and they will use words like "authentic," "scientifically accurate," "extrapolative," and "inventive" to describe it.

In the bond market, the Bank does not actively try to sell at a time when prices are falling; indeed its spokesmen have often asserted that it cannot sell in such conditions, that the views of investors in the short-term are predominantly extrapolative and that few will wish to buy stock when the price is falling.