The notorious apples - and -
oranges comparison in the misleading contrarian picture above with two graphs provides an instructive example of fallacious contrarian argumentation.
Not exact matches
Jones, clad
in an
orange cardigan and a studded green shirt, looks almost square by
comparison.
Some may argue this
comparison is too simplistic and «apples to
oranges» but the annual terawatt hour consumption figures persist none the less, and Bitcoin costs roughly 10x more energy than CERN Meanwhile, most, if not all of us will probably find it very difficult to demonstrate a cost / utility argument
in support of Bitcoin having 10x more benefit than CERN.
Experience some ups and downs, or
in Tennessee's case, play at a level that has you ranked as low as 102nd
in Pomeroy's rankings as late as mid-February, and you're going to put your fate into the hands of a committee that is weighing quite a few different factors and making a lot of apples - to -
oranges (Tennessee vs La Salle, for instance)
comparisons.
These are apples and
oranges comparisons for obvious reasons: New York has more Democratic voters than Republican ones for starters, while turnout
in primaries is a notoriously difficult to gage and draw deeper conclusion from for a general election.
In figure 2 we provide an example of the
comparison of the practical brightness of two
orange fluorescent proteins, differing by only a single amino acid.
Cage eggs are often watery and dull, while organic eggs will have a rich, bright
orange yolk
in comparison, leading to a far superior omelette!
Research shows that individuals who eat fruit like
oranges have a tendency to eat less at subsequent meals
in comparison to those who consume snacks like chips, snack crackers, candy or desserts.
«
In comparison to
oranges, camu camu provides 30 — 50 times more vitamin C, 10 times more iron, three times more niacin, twice as much riboflavin, and 50 % more phosphorus.»
In comparison, the same serving of
orange juice contains no fiber.
I've been playing the game mostly
in handheld mode, becoming an apples and
oranges comparison.
A scene at a dance where Yelchin appears
in an
orange knit hoochie suit (that he bought from the joke store) captures some of the awkwardness of dances for a 13 - year - old, though I suspect the sequence only seems good
in comparison to the rest of the film.
«So it was almost like apples and
oranges in trying to do a
comparison.»
The PaperWhite also has a very good showing and, to my eyes, comes
in second after the iPad, but it's an apples to
oranges comparison.
In side - by - side
comparisons with the Galaxy Note 8, Kindle Fire HDX and Nexus 7, we found that colors on the Note 8 (which also has a 1280 x 800 display) were noticeably oversaturated, giving the assassin a slightly
orange skin tone.
Because otherwise, we have an apples to
oranges comparison (like the term life
comparison in Myth # 1).
The purpose was to blunt the usual tendency
in which folks see these purported loyalty points currency valuations and they automatically begin comparing them mindlessly across loyalty programs, not realizing that without an appropriate points currency conversion such
comparisons are as meaningful as comparing apples and
oranges...
This will be a «falloff»
in accumulation that is not real because the
comparison of a non-EN year with a EN year is apples and
oranges.
E&E News reported
in 2016 that a spokesperson for the Solar Energy Industries Association «called the study «a textbook apples - to -
oranges comparison» based on the premise that the country's current fleet of power plants, many of which have already exceeded their life expectancies, can operate for decades longer.»
As a result, directly comparing the Sea Surface Temperature data from the early 20th century to the current Sea Surface Temperature data is like «comparing apples and
oranges» — there have been too many changes
in the data sources for such
comparisons to have much meaning.
Contrarians use an apples - and -
oranges comparison of the two graphs, which correspond to entirely different geographical regions,
in a fraudulent argument that the current global warming over the last 30 years is not caused by humans..
I think putting the US record graph
in the post, introduced an apple to
orange comparison.
I tried to make the picture more complete by adding
in a couple more (green and
orange lines), leading to the following cartoon graph: RayPierre compared the blue and red line, whereas Lucia argued that the politically realistic
comparison would be between the red and the black lines.
During the program, Beck put forth an apples - to -
oranges comparison by suggesting that the 2007 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report contradicts Gore's statement
in An Inconvenient Truth, that if the West Antarctic or Greenland ice sheets were to break up or melt, «sea level worldwide would go up 20 feet»:
In many respects I believe that comparing ebooks and print remains an apple and
orange type
comparison, they are different experiences each with their own merit and demerits, similarly I don't think print is going to disappear quite yet.