The following appeared in the magazine Financial Times, March $23,1995$: "When Elvis Presley died in $1977,$ there were $48$ professional Elvis impersonators. Today there are an estimated $7328.$ If that growth is projected, by the year $2016$ one person in four on the face of the globe will be an Elvis impersonator." This is an example of:

extrapolation

misuse of cause and effect

influential outlier