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• Samples of convenience are extrapolated to the entire population, such as trying to impute the U.S. incidence of Escherichia coli O157:H7 infections based on data from the few states that report good data.
[8] should not be extrapolated to mammals in general.
Assuming that experiments with laboratory populations can be validly extrapolated to natural speciation processes, founder-effect speciation may indeed be a moribund hypothesis, but I do not believe long-term genetic drift can yet be ruled out, and cannot agree that this “important debate has been settled” (p.
But if that's true, it cannot be extrapolated that movies continue to get worse as audiences continue to expand . If that were true, movies would be worse today (weekly admissions numbered 27 million in 1997, the last year for which data are available) than they were in 1985 (when weekly admissions numbered 20 million).
(For a primer on "margin of error" and "degree of confidence," see this Slate ".") But the results of an online "poll" in which thousands or even millions of users participate cannot be extrapolated to anything, because those results tell you only about the opinions of those who participated.