Sentences with phrase «comparing apples and oranges»

A point I frequently make to help folks clarify their understanding is that investing in real estate with qualified funds such as an IRA or 401k is entirely different from investing in real estate with after tax funds, and comparing the two is comparing apples and oranges as a result.

However, Vallières says DuProprio is comparing apples and oranges.

Comparing open houses with newspaper and internet marketing as one and the same thing is absolutely comparing apples and oranges.

You are comparing apples and oranges separated by the word «OR» my friend, in my opinion.

We've not really discussed the hardware specs because comparing the hardware of each phone is like comparing apples and oranges.

If you just track the final quotes and don't put in how much coverage or the term length that you requested, you'll end up comparing apples and oranges.

Or is this like comparing apples and oranges, i.e., one can argue that Google is not a service industry meaning they are not dealing with the public on a day to day basis.

I'm afraid, the solution to the great mystery is quite simple, a «comparing apples and oranges» thing:

To borrow a common phrase, we would be comparing apples and oranges.

You are comparing apples and oranges.

So, perhaps they are comparing apples and oranges and getting a fruit salad rather than the correct result.

Without a uniform way to talk about these trade - offs, they are stuck comparing apples and oranges.

You're comparing apples and oranges.

But even from that 30,000 foot level, if by «total response» you mean ECS then you're comparing apples and oranges.

M@WW says: Regarding the sensitivity of CO2 to temperature, you're comparing apples and oranges.

To refute this last statement by talking about ocean heat content is comparing apples and oranges.

Regarding the sensitivity of CO2 to temperature, you're comparing apples and oranges.

You keep comparing apples and oranges; the peak thermodynamic cycle efficiency of a state of the art diesel with the overall fuel efficiency of an antiquated power station.

Without such rules, comparing emission reduction actions taken by different countries will be like comparing apples and oranges.

It's not even comparing apples and oranges.

You are again comparing apples and oranges.

I'd say you're comparing apples and oranges again.

I think we are probably comparing apples and oranges when we compare these two temperatures.

As others here have said, comparing tide gauges and satellites are comparing apples and oranges.

If you compare Marcott's spike to BEST, you are comparing apples and oranges, and the resemblance is co-incidental.

«It's kind of comparing apples and oranges,» says Hugh Hillhouse, a professor of chemical engineering at the University of Washington.

Must we say once again that using such a strong El Nino — a weather event — to calculate long - term climate trends is comparing apples and oranges?

Kevin allegedly says it is like comparing apples and oranges.

As a result, directly comparing the Sea Surface Temperature data from the early 20th century to the current Sea Surface Temperature data is like «comparing apples and oranges» — there have been too many changes in the data sources for such comparisons to have much meaning.

I'd compare it to figure 9.1 a and c, but I am likely comparing apples and oranges.

Are they comparing apples and oranges?

I get that I'm comparing apples and oranges here, but the emotional beats of Uncharted always fell flat for me.

I always tell people who make that comparison that they're wrong it's like comparing apples and oranges.

like comparing apples and oranges really..

Comparing Carmack and Kojima is like comparing apples and oranges, they're in similar fields but far too different.

That's kind of like comparing apples and oranges.

The purpose was to blunt the usual tendency in which folks see these purported loyalty points currency valuations and they automatically begin comparing them mindlessly across loyalty programs, not realizing that without an appropriate points currency conversion such comparisons are as meaningful as comparing apples and oranges...

So to me these kinds of analysis are comparing apples and oranges.

It's like comparing apples and oranges.

in groups with similar characteristics and purposes, addressing specific nutritional needs (instead of comparing apples and oranges so to speak),

You have to compare different lenders on the same rate (e.g. 6.5 %) and lock - in period, otherwise you will be comparing apples and oranges.

For a start, you're comparing apples and oranges — they're different breeds of loan, and the interest rates reflect the different features offered by each.

So the author is comparing apples and oranges.

Geoff, when you compare the MER that your bank funds charge and Knowledge First's management fee, you are comparing apples and oranges.

Perhaps there is a case of money illusion here is, stocks aren't «holding up, p / e ratio have compressed significantly over the past 7/8 years.Another point, you are comparing apples and oranges by taking s & p prices levels against yield bond spread.Try this: s & p earning yield less t - bills against the yield bond spread.

I think we were comparing apples and oranges.

While both methods of investment allow investors to achieve real estate exposure, it's a bit like comparing apples and oranges.

When you compare this to a speculative investment, like stocks, you are comparing apples and oranges.

Comparing an FIA contract to stock market investing is like comparing apples and oranges.

They fail to take into account that, in some ways, they are comparing apples and oranges.