Sentences with phrase «instead comparing themselves against»

Rather than approaching online dating as an entirely personal thing, people are instead comparing themselves against other's performance, measuring themselves up, assuming that their figures aren't as good as the national whole.

Not exact matches

Trying to measure love is like trying to determine inches of the universe and comparing one love to another is like pitting stars against each other instead of letting each simply blaze through the dark.

But Marcia Angell, a senior lecturer in social medicine at Harvard Medical School and the former editor of The New England Journal of Medicine, says companies often structure research in a manner that is most likely to yield favorable conclusions — by comparing a medication against a placebo, for instance, instead of comparing it with its most effective competitors.

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Instead of comparing students to each other, based on arbitrary timetables, students can be compared against performance standards and benchmarks.

Meanwhile, state Superintendent Tom Torlakson has continued to caution against comparing any Smarter Balanced Assessment scores, including 11th - grade results, with those from previous standardized tests, instead saying this year's scores should only serve as a baseline going forward.

However, instead of pitting two training methodologies against one another, we thought we'd compare a group of dogs going through «obedience» training and a group merely exercising regularly.

After a bit of research I realized that the amount of heat (while awesome) was pathetically small and that, by comparing it to volcanoes, instead of warming we would get cooling from the dust throw up (this was before Nuclear Winter was put forward as a compelling reason against limited nuclear war).

Instead of only going back to EIA's 2013 renewable cost estimates like they did in their Kansas report, in their Ohio report they go back to 2008 cost data to develop their estimate of how the cost of wind energy compares against alternatives.

Instead of an absolute rating of financial strength, Comdex Scoring attempts to compare financial firms against one another.

What we mean, instead, is to compare the plan features against its cost to determine whether you are getting a good bargain.

Instead, compare medical insurance plans and get health insurance quotes for 2017 and protect yourself and your family, not only against disease but also against financial hardship.

Cows have an unusual dental configuration compared to humans and many other mammals; while they have molars on their top and bottom gums, instead of matching upper and lower teeth in the front they have lower incisors that press against a tough pad of skin on the top front section of their mouth.

We tend to compare ourselves against those few who have more than us instead of against the multitudes who have much less than us.

The above described professional is not seen as a net negative from the clients pocketbook but instead a net positive when compared against alternatives under a competitive marketing strategy.

If you compare my sheet against the sheet you sent, it pays off 8.8 years instead of your 9.17 and the interest paid is only $ 49,866.22 instead of $ 52,073.75.