extrapolation is almost always wrong (except in the short term).
Jim
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Devine, James wrote:
extrapolation is almost always wrong (except in the short term).
Jim
Someone did it for the military budget back some years, and estimated
that by some date (not too far in the future) the total budget would buy
one fighter plane, or something like that. I must not be
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extrapolation is almost always wrong (except in the short term).
Jim
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Duh.
[I wonder what Derek De Solla Price would say about this]
Government must act now to save science
Polly Curtis
The Guardian
Wednesday December 17, 2003
The government must act now to tackle the plummeting popularity of the
sciences in schools and universities, the influential Royal Society said
Eqbal Ahmed wrote some marvellous essays linking economic and political
decline with educational decline.
I am fascinated by the process of the capitalist dismantlement of the
state. They do not seem to realize that they are dismantling those very
institutions that lend them legitimacy. Finally,
Who is Derek De Solla Price and what does he say in general?
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Who is Derek De Solla Price and what does he say in general?
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He was the originator of what is known as scientometrics; a strategy for
measuring the rate of growth of scientific knowledge. He wrote a very
The same problem exists in the US
Good, Mary L. 2001. 21st Century Science and Technology: The Role of the
United States: Leader, Viable Competitor or Follower. Presentation to be
American Association for the Advancement of Science annual meeting (San
Francisco, 15 February).
