Grayling's fellow Tory Iain Duncan Smith agrees with Easton that the NCRS «changed recording methods significantly and has rendered direct numerical comparisons with pre-2002 / 03 levels inaccurate». (newstatesman.com)
This simple numerical comparison (leaving aside other factors affecting the classrooms in Spanish universities such as the large number of students in many centers and the increase in the type of «unquantifiable» work that this generates for teaching staff) shows that the «civil servant professor» has a significant decrease in availability of time for research compared to members of research - only institutes. (sciencemag.org)
Women tend to be rated as more attractive than men on average, and so numerical comparisons like these are somewhat ambiguous (i.e., you might be comparing a 35th percentile man with a 17th percentile woman, which is what Li et al. did, see p. 678 here). (pauleastwick.com)