At that point it may be possible to draw
a valid comparison between a father on shared parental leave and a mother on maternity leave».
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.
This is a lot like saying you can draw
a valid comparison between apples and oranges by comparing apple seeds and orange seeds.
There is
no valid comparison between being INSIDE of another human, and being inside a building.
Some natural experiments have used disasters and economic crises to make more externally
valid comparisons between affected and unaffected populations [13 — 15,31].
Not exact matches
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.»
«The
comparisons between high and low consumption in our study are
valid, but our findings should not be interpreted as a prescription,» Zhang said.
Andreas — we've had several questions along these lines: How
valid are these
comparison, given differences in demographics, etc,
between countries?
Given the small sample sizes per nation in international assessments, it's unlikely that a
valid comparison could be drawn
between the limited number of Grade 8 students assessed per nation in PISA and the nationally representative samples of U.S. Grade 8 students assessed in NAEP and TIMSS.
The only
valid comparison, however, is that
between a public charter school and the traditional public school to which a student would otherwise have been assigned.
The
comparison is most certainly
between the iPad2 and the G - Slate and therefore
Valid.
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.
The only
valid comparison is
between UAH and RSS if you really want to maintain standards.
According to Damasio & Koller (2015) invariance suggests a significant quality indicator for the MLQ, enabling
valid group
comparisons between genders, free from response bias.
If
comparisons to divorce in the United States prove to be
valid, Australians can expect the total number of divorces to continue rising in that country for the next year or two as U.S. statistics have shown there is often a gap
between the time relationship problems first surface and the point when couples actually decide to file for a divorce.