Sentences with phrase «find points of comparison»

GB: From the writer and consumer perspective, it comes out of this being a new world, so the first thing you do is try to find a point of comparison.

Dark Souls, Far Cry Primal (or any open world Ubisoft game), Uncharted — these are just a few of the games players will cite when finding points of comparison for Horizon: Zero Dawn.

Not exact matches

The secret in interpreting a parable, then, is to find the analogous situation and so come to understand the point of the comparison.

As a point of comparison, the size of the shift was statistically comparable to the difference researchers have found between men's and women's self - reported number of heterosexual sex partners (with men reporting more sex partners).

Besides our four main research questions, there are more research findings worth mentioning: comparisons between acupuncture and other stimulations; comparisons of acupuncture under different consciousness states; acupuncture at different time points; acupuncture at group of points; acupuncture effect correlated to expectation.

As one who finds Whit Stillman's films annoying and sophomoric - narcissistic, verbose and over-appreciated by boomer critics - the comparison at the end of your review negates all the other points.

By comparison, economists found that productivity growth accounts for.91 percentage points of each 1.0 percentage point increase in the speed of output growth.

In comparison, an experimental study of class sizes in Tennessee finds that reducing class size by one - third increases test scores by 4 percentile points in the first year at a cost of $ 2,151 per student per year (in 1996 dollars).

Across 21 comparisons (seven sites with three racial groups each), we find only two cases in which the average difference between the sending TPS and the receiving charter school is greater than 10 percentage points in the concentration of the transferring student's race.

The study by ctb / McGraw - Hill found that, in 1987, students in grades 1 to 8 who took its Comprehensive Test of Basic Skills scored an average of 6.63 percentile points higher in reading, 10.83 points higher in language, and 14 points higher in mathematics than a 1981 comparison group.

Put aside that it's likely that both the authors of the study and the schools themselves have points in their favor — the full - time virtual charter schools themselves have in the past been transparent about some of their academic struggles, and, at the same time, in their criticism of the study, those same schools are surely right that the characteristics and motivation of some of their students for attending full - time virtual charters makes them quite unlike the «virtual twins» the study purports to have found for the purposes of comparison.

At the same time, however, students in the comparison schools were somewhat more likely to stay in their 9th - grade school through the end of 12th grade: we found an increase of 2.6 percentage points, to 44.5 percent from 41.9 percent.

This comparison point is significant: we know that pupils with low prior attainment find it much harder to make the expected «two levels of progress», and so schools with challenging intakes often suffer in these calculations.

During middle school, for example, students from elementary schools that had implemented the Developmental Studies Center's Child Development Project — a program that emphasizes community building — were found to outperform middle school students from comparison elementary schools on academic outcomes (higher grade - point averages and achievement test scores), teacher ratings of behavior (better academic engagement, respectful behavior, and social skills), and self - reported misbehavior (less misconduct in school and fewer delinquent acts)(Battistich, 2001).

In a previous study (Booker et al., 2011), we found that students attending charter high schools were 7 to 15 percentage points more likely to graduate from high school and 8 to 10 percentage points more likely to enroll in college than a comparison set of students attending traditional public high schools.

While most comparisons to the music industry don't stand up to scrutiny, one data point that I find particularly notable is that, as of May 2010, digital downloads still haven't crossed the 50 % mark:

When you chose your subjects, you have to put efforts and make a research in order to find several points of comparison.

The point of this analysis is to try to find stocks cheap in comparison to what they should be worth.

If you find more than one with essentially identical rates, a secondary point of comparison would be to see which has the least severe early withdrawal penalty, just in case you need to access your money earlier than expected.

Customers who are making an apples - to - apples product comparison based on performance may find price to be a sticking point, as many of these litters have higher price points.

As your skills of comparison improve, you'll find yourself squeezing great value out of the points you've earned!

I made a few comparison searches and found redemption values of around 0.3 US cents per point, making it a bad redemption option.

* S: (n) analogy (an inference that if things agree in some respects they probably agree in others) * S: (n) analogy (drawing a comparison in order to show a similarity in some respect) «the operation of a computer presents and interesting analogy to the working of the brain»; «the models show by analogy how matter is built up» * S: (n) doctrine of analogy, analogy (the religious belief that between creature and creator no similarity can be found so great but that the dissimilarity is always greater; language can point in the right direction but any analogy between God and humans will always be inadequate)»

To point out just a couple of things: — oceans warming slower (or cooling slower) than lands on long - time trends is absolutely normal, because water is more difficult both to warm or to cool (I mean, we require both a bigger heat flow and more time); at the contrary, I see as a non-sense theory (made by some serrist, but don't know who) that oceans are storing up heat, and that suddenly they will release such heat as a positive feedback: or the water warms than no heat can be considered ad «stored» (we have no phase change inside oceans, so no latent heat) or oceans begin to release heat but in the same time they have to cool (because they are losing heat); so, I don't feel strange that in last years land temperatures for some series (NCDC and GISS) can be heating up while oceans are slightly cooling, but I feel strange that they are heating up so much to reverse global trend from slightly negative / stable to slightly positive; but, in the end, all this is not an evidence that lands» warming is led by UHI (but, this effect, I would not exclude it from having a small part in temperature trends for some regional area, but just small); both because, as writtend, it is normal to have waters warming slower than lands, and because lands» temperatures are often measured in a not so precise way (despite they continue to give us a global uncertainity in TT values which is barely the instrumental's one)-- but, to point out, HadCRU and MSU of last years (I mean always 2002 - 2006) follow much better waters» temperatures trend; — metropolis and larger cities temperature trends actually show an increase in UHI effect, but I think the sites are few, and the covered area is very small worldwide, so the global effect is very poor (but it still can be sensible for regional effects); but I would not run out a small warming trend for airport measurements due mainly to three things: increasing jet planes traffic, enlarging airports (then more buildings and more asphalt — if you follow motor sports, or simply live in a town / city, you will know how easy they get very warmer than air during day, and how much it can slow night - time cooling) and overall having airports nearer to cities (if not becoming an area inside the city after some decade of hurban growth, e.g. Milan - Linate); — I found no point about UHI in towns and villages; you will tell me they are not large cities; but, in comparison with 20-40-60 years ago when they were «countryside», many small towns and villages have become part of larger hurban areas (at least in Europe and Asia) so examining just larger cities would not be enough in my opinion to get a full view of UHI effect (still remembering that it has a small global effect: we can say many matters are due to UHI instead of GW, maybe even that a small part of measured GW is due to UHI, and that GW measurements are not so precise to make us able to make good analisyses and predictions, but not that GW is due to UHI).

The art of finding meaningful start and end points of periods for comparisons, independent of the subject matter of the graph, is well - studied.

I also find that any comparison by the accused of his right or privilege in his drugged and halluncinogenous (sic) condition to carry concealed on his person a pointed, sharp, double edged dagger — in comparison to the right or privilege of a Sikh to carry a Kirpan is merely absurd and entirely derisive.

While many of the smaller towns aren't listed, it's still helpful to find the closest city to where you live and use that as a point of comparison.