Sentences with phrase «for valid comparisons»

Results: Nine of the 24 analysed scales functioned well across all occupational groups and could thus be used for valid comparisons across professions.

If we acknowledge this standard for valid comparisons, we can quickly dismiss the national and state - level comparisons, which constitute the bulk of the CRP report.

Animal Hoarding Dauphiné and Cooper's argument presupposes that enough is known both about «people involved in TNR» and «the psychiatric disorders described in problematic animal hoarding» for a valid comparison to be made.

Although I suppose if he had truncated the data and stuck the instrumental record on for valid comparison, skeptics would have accused him of using «mikes nature trick».

Not exact matches

Sir, Haredi men dress VERY conservatively; if you can find evidence for me of one slacking off in dress, I will consider this comparison valid.

Bobby: When for - profit corporations in this country are fighting in court to be treated like people, I think the comparison is valid.

You said, «You may take it as an insult, but I would suggest that what you are pointing out is actually a weak analogy fallacy, i.e. the comparison between the evidence for Jesus, et al and the evidence for the tooth fairy is not a valid comparison.»

If that is your benchmark reference for a football club you should give up on football now or do the research and work out for yourself how and why RM are a million miles from being an appropriate or valid comparison to any club, never mind Arsenal.

The only god damn valid comparison you made was our age limits for marriage.

The key to a successful testing program is having valid results from pre-season baseline testing for comparison to post-injury results.

Just lots of ways to twist the same data, but in this case the comparisons are not even valid, and this is very embarrassing for a doctor to promote such awful misinformation.

Socialism and Capitalism are likewise more valid for comparison purposes - both economic systems.

Regrettably, we could not specifically compare immigrant and native Hispanics; there are not enough data about older U.S. - born Hispanics to generate statistically valid estimates of total life expectancy for the purposes of comparison.

A rule of thumb valid for comparisons (both academic and non-academic) is subtracting one whole hour.

As no relevant study is available for comparison with the appropriate comparator therapy, the benefit assessment of the drug manufacturer is based on its own deliberations and assumptions, for which, however, a valid data basis is lacking.

A group from the NIH's National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) evaluated the live imaging system as a potential alternative to traditional methods of assessing investigative influenza vaccines and treatment in mice, which can be time consuming and require more study animals for valid statistical comparison.

Given the relatively very high doses used in the study on the whole and the fact that only mild toxicity was reported, I would say that this conclusion appears to be valid but I would like to see more studies using high such high doses for comparison in order to truly validate these findings.

On Twitter I called the film an indie Can't Hardly Wait for a new generation, and while I'm not sure that comparison is completely valid I'm going to go with it.

A valid comparison would require that the information be collected in similar ways across all countries — either we rely upon self - reports in surveys of teachers for all countries or we rely on contractual hours for everyone.

The upshot: Even as they write «college and career readiness» rates into their ESSA plans, many states have no reliable way to determine how many of their high school seniors are reaching that point and, regardless of what they use for standards and tests, practically none will be able to make valid comparisons with other states.

It offers a user - friendly single source for a comprehensive range of education data, enabling users to both holistically assess education in a given city as well as make valid comparisons among multiple cities.

Hardly seems a valid tool for comparison..

Not that a lack of a valid comparison stopped the American Federation of Teachers, which the Times credits for bringing the Education Department's charter school comparison to light.

For the second year, all states used a common, rigorous measure to calculate graduation rates that allows for new and more valid comparisoFor the second year, all states used a common, rigorous measure to calculate graduation rates that allows for new and more valid comparisofor new and more valid comparisons.

To affirm NASSP's support for a global community of educators, offer recommendations for improving the relevance and significance of international comparisons, and promote appropriate comparative analysis of the data from international assessments to aid in reaching valid conclusions regarding the performance of public schools in the United States of America.

However, I expected that after explicitly controlling for parental characteristics, and making a much more valid comparison between students in both types of schools, the initial positive result will not persist.

In all the above proxies do a strong job of controlling for unobserved parent characteristics we want to control for in order to move closer to a valid comparison.

The author concludes that such practices as grade inflation and grade nonequivalence make it difficult for college admissions officers to make a valid assessment of a student's achievement in comparison with other applicants.

disclaimer: Consumer Reports doesn't get the best published performance numbers for manual transmission cars, but since all of these cars were manual transmission, the data should be valid for comparison.

I'm sorry, but the CTS coupe is not a valid basis of comparison; indeed, Cadillac set to meet / exceed the 3 - series with this car, and unfortunately the lack of attention to interior details is a dealbreaker for me.

As for its «peers», I don't think a valid comparison's even possible: Here's some peers I previously highlighted (all were burning cash)-- since then, they've collapsed on average almost 60 % in the past 18 months.

The rates for the older EE Bonds are only valid for those 6 months and those bonds will have a different rate than the ones newly issued since May 2005, but that data is not presented on the chart to simplify the comparison.

Do not mistake this introduction for a comparison of Sakurai (the brain behind Super Smash Bros. and Kirby) to some of the greatest dramatists the world has ever seen - such comparisons are hardly valid.

And the 450,000 year CO2 percentage graph mixes data smoothed with a moving average of unspecified length with raw data for the last few years - it is not a valid comparison.

Sir Paul asks the American NASA «expert» about climate change models and is shown a double screen comparison of weather forecasting a few days ahead with actual satellite data (no proof that the same model is valid for predicting climate a hundred years hence).

The data is certainly valid for comparison purposes, but it leaves out some important aspects of power generation costs.

THE «ENEMY» AT HOME... A few hours ago I emailed to «[email protected]» what follows: Subject: http://www.giss.nasa.gov/research/news/20140311/ How can a scientist say:»... But since 1998, the rate of warming has been only 0.09 °F (0.05 °C) per decade...» You DO know 1998 was an exceptional positive ENSO year, NOT VALID for any comparison, let alone saying «per decade» just with a sample of 1 1/2 decade!

We'll be using the Fire HD 8 (starting price of $ 80) and Fire HD 8 Kids Edition (starting price of $ 130) for the majority of this comparison, but the ideas expressed can generally be considered valid across all the various sizes of the device.

According to Damasio & Koller (2015) invariance suggests a significant quality indicator for the MLQ, enabling valid group comparisons between genders, free from response bias.

If comparisons to divorce in the United States prove to be valid, Australians can expect the total number of divorces to continue rising in that country for the next year or two as U.S. statistics have shown there is often a gap between the time relationship problems first surface and the point when couples actually decide to file for a divorce.

The only valid comparisons for median prices are with the same period a year earlier due to a seasonality in buying patterns.

The only valid comparisons for median prices are with the same period a year earlier due to seasonality in buying patterns.

By comparison, in some states, handwritten wills require no witnesses for the will to be valid.