Sentences with phrase «valid comparison»

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 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.

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

Even though the future will inevitably be different, these 45 years may provide a reasonably valid comparison among these asset classes.

It is recommended that a uniform method of collecting and presenting data be developed to ensure valid comparison.

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

While study participants were randomly assigned to control and treatment conditions, there is little valid comparison between the two groups.

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

I will remember that the only valid comparison is between my work now and my work in the past.

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).

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.

Linking data from the two assessment programs will allow for valid comparisons of student achievement in Virginia and other states with achievement in the more than 50 countries that participate in TIMSS.

Robin, if this research is correct then the PETM is not a completely valid comparison.

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

Scales measuring organizational aspects of work could also be used across professional groups, enabling valid comparisons between differing workplaces and occupations.

The question of whether those are valid comparisons became a hotly debated topic in our comments section, opening up a discussion about the ways the two cases might help shed light on one other.

«It's still a very valid comparison,» says Weller.

The fossils «do fall outside of the range of variation of any species described so far,» Ward says, although she thinks more specimens will be needed to make a truly valid comparison.

Namely, that their test should nominally inadvertently reject a match 1 time out 20 (i.e. for a 5 % significance), actually rejects valid comparisons 16 times out of 20!

It's a perfectly valid comparison.

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.

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.

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.

Also - while grain consumption is an inherently irrelevant statistic when it comes to both weight and longevity, if you want a statistically valid comparison, squatting while using the restroom actually seems to be one of the best predictors...

For example, it may be difficult to make valid comparisons between the classroom management skills of a teacher who has emotionally impaired students, subject to frequent disruptions, to the skills of a teacher whose students are less disruptive.

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.»

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

Duff doesn't see that as a valid comparison.

So it's a valid comparison in that respect.

I simply don't agree that it is a valid comparison or that «complexity» and «common sense» are mutually exclusive.

Being a sports commentator is not a valid comparison.

@jc, 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.

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.»

So I don't believe it's a valid comparison.

NOW thats a valid comparison..

But for the love of all that is % $ $ @@ why do we persist with this Sanchez «winger» thing and somehow his goals don't enter in to any valid comparison with other sides.

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