Sentences with phrase «not valid comparisons»

Their review, however, inappropriately excluded a number of valid studies, and inappropriately included studies that were not valid comparisons, such as comparisons of different types of Canadian Immersion programs (Krashen 1996, 1999b).

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.»

Not a valid comparison at all.

A 2005 Chevrolet Avalanche with four - wheel - drive starts at $ 37,305, but again, it's not a valid comparison.

Not a valid comparison.

AM2 is not a valid comparison as Sega owns those studios.

This isn't a valid comparison as our bodies create CO2 and have mechanisms to deal with it in place already.

But that is not a valid comparison to what is being suggested at all.

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.

The problem with that concept is this: Virtually nobody invests the difference and it's not a valid comparison because you can not buy term in your 80's or 90's.

Not a valid comparison.

Not exact matches

In that case, it's not exactly a valid comparison, now is it?

Duff doesn't see that as a valid comparison.

So that comparison is not valid either.

Anyway the comparison is not valid.

PeterVN, the comparison is completely valid, both are historical events, you believe booth shot lincon but you don't believe the empty tomb?

I also don't think it's a valid comparison given one is seven years younger than the other.

But the comparison to Arsenal that you repeatedly employ isn't entirely valid.

Rules of the Wild pits kids against various animals (a valid comparison, some days), and uses humor to teach them how and how not to act.

The abstract which most people will read clearly states that they can not comment on safety and with there numbers I don't consider it valid to perform a statistical comparison either.

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.

Political rivals and commentators have labeled the comments «offensive», while others have questioned whether the comparison is historically valid or not.

«The comparisons between high and low consumption in our study are valid, but our findings should not be interpreted as a prescription,» Zhang said.

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.

These comparisons are actually not that valid, as differences in the dating of Easter have caused disparities in the release calendar.

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.

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.

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.

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.

That might seem a bit daft — after all, they're huge, luxury saloons, not SUVs — but really, it's the only valid comparison.

You're not making a valid comparison here.

In that case you are not making a valid comparison.

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.

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.

By comparison, Hyatt and MGM's partnership is valid only in Las Vegas, and not at MGM properties elsewhere.

There's nothing wrong with it and you're opinion is valid, but it's existence and comparison do not diminish what is ultimately a more robust offering.

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.

So your comparison of contemporaneous CO2 and temperature trends is not valid.

There are valid points hidden deep in the op - ed piece (any presidential candidate should indeed care about bolstering, not shredding, our capacity to monitor and understand climate), but they are interlaced with ridiculous comparisons (Lysenkosism and climate activism).

We don't go back and adjust the forcings to «improve» the match, since that would assume that the model was perfect (which we know it isn't), so the comparison to the observed data is a valid test.

The comparison is valid, because the point of the comparison is nothing to do with the causes of change in the business environment, it was that individual businesses, even individual economic sectors, are not the economy.

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.

The problem if it's not applied (I think) is that the NOAA figures being compared include it, which begs the question as to whether eg figure 20 is a valid comparison.

The amount of warming 1983 - 2009 is not known, but my calculations were a valid comparison (apples with apples) which showed that the contribution from observed cloud changes over the period was nearly 10 times greater than the contribution from CO2.

That is why a comparison of post WWII Debt situation to now is not valid..

While it does not matter whether the UHI is subtracted out of today's temps or added into past ones to correct it, as long as the temperature records are not subtracting out 3 - 5 degrees of UHI then the trend comparisons are not valid.

That comparison is not valid.

Likewise, if science shows like PBS NOVA started relying heavily on Exxon and Koch Industries funding — if the American Petroleum Institute started dictating policy to the National Science Teachers Association — if BP got to play a role in drawing up science curricula at California schools — well — the tobacco / fossil fuel comparison is fairly valid, isn't it?