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Re:U.S. backs down in fight with Harvard, MIT over student v... by nine_zeros on Tuesday July 14, 2020 @03:54PM (#23836944)
> The number of foreign students is at an all-time high.

Don't get me wrong but do you always look at historical numbers to predict the future?

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Re:U.S. backs down in fight with Harvard, MIT over student v... by genericone on Tuesday July 14, 2020 @04:50PM (#23837662)
I think you are being downvoted because... well, exactly what other methods did you have in mind? Using trend data to predict future data seems pretty run-of-the-mill to me.
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