When comparing test results, remember that they are skewed by students' backgrounds--mainly their parents' educational levels.
Mentally, when comparing prices I added in whether there would be sales and delivery charges.
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We can see this difference when comparing performance of a few leading companies today.
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The figures are especially encouraging when comparing new gas turbines to older coal facilities.
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The numbers are even more striking when comparing wind and solar to natural gas.
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The new system provides a more accurate metric for investors when comparing different companies, he said.
Long, unleveraged ETFs will generally behave as you would expect when comparing with its index.
Instead of looking at past performance, look at costs when comparing similar type funds.
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For the efficiency ratios, higher is better, but be careful when comparing numbers of different kinds of nonprofits.
Well that time has come, and when comparing notes, that post did get a lot of things right.
There are a couple of thoughts to keep in mind when comparing the IDC numbers to the Chitika results.
Back then, incomes fell at first, but had already recovered by nearly 5% when comparing a similar four-year period.
When comparing the new tallies with the results from November 4, it appears Coleman's lead now stands at 238 votes.
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Nokia Lumia 920 scores the best points among most of the tech sites today when comparing high end smart phones.
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Although the three highest paying countries remain unchanged when comparing net salaries, the relative positions of some other countries change significantly.
When comparing the ratio of jobs created by new businesses compared to jobs eliminated by firms going under, California ranks 34th.
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It would be interesting to see the gap not only in revenue but in profit when comparing the sales of physical versus digital.
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When comparing insurance policies, make sure they cover a wide range of losses, such as fire, theft, breakage and loss through the mail.
The idea was to avoid confusion among political analysts, party activists and the number crunchers when comparing performances from 2005 with Thursday's vote.
When compared to trucking, pipeline transportation is a staggering 16 times safer than rail, and 189 times safer than trucks when comparing freight tons shipped.
Now 17 seconds is not bad, but you want to keep that in perspective when comparing to an iOS device like an iPhone or iPad.
Some scientists urge caution when comparing pre- and post-hurricane surveys.
The authors, a team of scientists from China, Britain and America, found that when comparing national and provincial statistics between 1997 and 2010 a startling gap appeared.
When comparing commercial loans, look at more than the rate.
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One intriguing finding, when comparing the limited set of data on prisoners with people from similar racial and economic groups outside cell walls, is that the prisoners appear to be healthier.
Based on information from NPD's monthly Mobile Phone Track service, when comparing Q3 2012 with Q4 2012, U.S. iPhone 4 sales increased 79 percent and iPhone 4S sales grew 43 percent.
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Speaking on the BBC Today programme, Sir Michael said there was a "huge difference in school standards between local authorities, " even when comparing areas that had similar populations and levels of deprivation.
Patents may be a useful measure of innovation prowess when comparing companies within the same industry (though some researchers even dispute that because some patents are very valuable while others are not).
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The researchers studied 18 national political conventions between 1972 and 2004, and found no statistically significant impact on personal income or local employment when comparing host cities with control cities that didn't host events.
For the most part, the country is importing more commodities than it did in 2010, but in percentage terms volume growth is not as big as it was when comparing 2010 imports to 2009 imports.
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