Sentences with phrase «valid comparisons with»

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.

Pierre - Normand is the resolution of the pre-instrumental CO2 data sufficient to allow a valid comparison with the instrumental (Keeling) data?

Is the resolution of the ice core CO2 data sufficient to allow a valid comparison with the instrumental (Keeling) data?

Not exact matches

I shall assume that the aim of an explication of «valid induction» is to find a numerical or comparative function c (h, e)-- the «confirmation of hypothesis h given evidence e» — which is a syntactic function of the statements h and e, and which has a high or comparatively high value in those cases where normally accepted or intuitive inductive methods would direct us to accept hypothesis h on evidence e, at least in comparison with other hypotheses having lower c - value.

As with the previous article I decided that removing the penalty goals from individual totals was the fairest way to ensure comparisons are valid.

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.

As no relevant study is available for comparison with the appropriate comparator therapy, the benefit assessment of the drug manufacturer is based on its own deliberations and assumptions, for which, however, a valid data basis is lacking.

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.

I think that the comparison with the character of Judi Dench in James Bond, and that which Harrison Ford plays in Star Wars, is a valid one.

He acknowledges that the Common Core standards have largely failed to usher in an era of timely, valid, and informative comparisons, but then he says, in effect, never mind, we still have NAEP, PISA, and other measures by which to know how one state is doing academically versus another and in comparison with the country as a whole.

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.

Yes, both have more powerful engines, but they're both competitive on price with the Encore, so it's a valid 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.

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

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.

The past few Final Fantasy entries (barring the MMO Final Fantasy XIV) have toyed around with a variation on an action - RPG style system, and FFXV pushes it strongly in that direction, even drawing some completely valid comparisons to the gameplay of the Kingdom Hearts series.

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).

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

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.

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.

Sir Paul asks the American NASA «expert» about climate change models and is shown a double screen comparison of weather forecasting a few days ahead with actual satellite data (no proof that the same model is valid for predicting climate a hundred years hence).

Can the average person feel confident that «proxy thermometers» can really tell us what temperatures were 500, 1000 or 10,000 years with a degree of accuracy solid enough to provide valid comparisons to today?

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.

The problem is with the historic data and using it as a valid comparison to recent data.

THE «ENEMY» AT HOME... A few hours ago I emailed to «[email protected]» what follows: Subject: http://www.giss.nasa.gov/research/news/20140311/ How can a scientist say:»... But since 1998, the rate of warming has been only 0.09 °F (0.05 °C) per decade...» You DO know 1998 was an exceptional positive ENSO year, NOT VALID for any comparison, let alone saying «per decade» just with a sample of 1 1/2 decade!

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.

The only valid comparisons for median prices are with the same period a year earlier due to a seasonality in buying patterns.

The only valid comparisons for median prices are with the same period a year earlier due to seasonality in buying patterns.