Sentences with phrase «make valid comparisons»

, they were big enough to be able to make valid comparisons.

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.

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.

Understanding this dynamic is critical to making a valid comparison and to understanding what success is.

You're not making a valid comparison here.

In that case you are not making a valid comparison.

That way, you know you're making a valid comparison.

In order to make a valid comparison today you need to use the updated data sets.

The difficulties of making valid comparisons over time in Indigenous communities, because of population instability and other reasons, on almost any social indicator, have been extensively documented.

Not exact matches

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

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.

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.

So it's important to get all your rate quotes the same day, or better yet within a few hours of each other, so you know you're making a valid mortgage loan comparison among lenders.

I hope it's after - tax as that would make the comparison more valid IMO, if not, than your really only getting $ 7 / 8k in spendable cash as compared to a full $ 9k from the strait up ROTH option.

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.

That's a completely valid comparison (and one that I've made myself), since, unlike most Zelda games, Breath of the Wild puts very few restrictions or pre-requisites on which parts of the game you can explore.

Making that comparison is definitely valid, and we know of a lot more PS4 exclusives than we do Xbox exclusives — sorry, «Microsoft exclusives» — but that's showing a difference between the companies and their audiences.

Nor can a comparison between observations and AR4 projections be made «scientifically better» — let alone valid in accounting terms — by replacing actual AR4 documents and graphics with a spaghetti graph that did not appear in AR4.

If these metrics are to be used, it is essential that important differences in institutional character and student profile should be recognised to enable more valid comparisons to be made.»

Some natural experiments have used disasters and economic crises to make more externally valid comparisons between affected and unaffected populations [13 — 15,31].