Perhaps the Times should live up to its assuredly well-deserved reputation and take heed of the esteemed position that it holds by knowing the facts before drawing conclusions about the relative quality of health care in the United States.
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But if all you do is comment on the relative quality of life in the penthouse and the ground floor without acknowledging the fact that people regularly come and go from both you create a totally erroneous impression of economic inequality.
If the Prosperous Suburbia Primary School has 60% of pupils receiving private tuition while the Deprived Inner City Primary has none, then how much of a guide are the league tables to the relative quality of teaching at these two schools?
The other side of this coin is Californian wine, which tends to be overpriced relative to its quality, but there are many exceptions to this rule and plenty of great buys.
Valuations here remain attractive relative to other quality buckets: spreads for BB and B bonds are still above their long-term historical levels (according to JP Morgan data) and issuers have plenty of cash and little debt maturing in the short term.
Such a quality-rating system could also transmit clear signals to consumers regarding the quality and relative benefits of insurance products in your state.
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Both Xtandi and Zytiga, which are pills, have similar overall survival benefit relative to placebo, and quality-of-life data.
In education, the problem is that a quality is inherently relative.
The caveats to our methodology notwithstanding, our study shows that there are big differences in the quality of education relative to spending among counties and is further proof that money is not the only--or perhaps even the most important--factor when it comes to the quality of education.
When it comes to topics that are the most over-covered and over-hyped relative to their importance to the quality of life and the future of humanity, there are plenty of candidates to choose from: Oprah, the New England Patriots, windmills.
We're looking at a revamped but still tiny CX sensor, this time with the resolution bumped up to 14 megapixels (instead of 10) -- a move that likely won't do much for the camera's overall image quality or low light performance relative to APS-C or Micro Four Thirds shooters.
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We could ask the rating agencies to give up attempting to produce absolute measures of credit quality and instead focus on providing only relative measures.
That's why a dividend investor focuses on the business, not the stock, and makes sure that the amount (high, relative to the price paid for the shares), quality (high, not borrowed or about to be cut) and trajectory (modestly positive) of the dividend are all as they should be.
If we focus on the 1% of the population that's 35% of the cost and apply reasonable tools that involve computerized follow-ups relative to their care, we can make significant improvements in quality and costs of care for those people.
Although we know the 10 year treasury yield is artificially low right now, we still feel like REITs are not overvalued given the higher quality of REIT portfolios today (which would warrant lower relative cap rates), and given the lower dividend payout ratios (currently 74 percent of AFFO versus historical average of 82 percent).
The earnings-quality grade rewards companies for having high sums of operating and investing cash flow relative to reported earnings (Cisco).
While Prosciutto di Parma and its close Italian relative, Prosciutto San Daniele, are both excellent and both readily available in this country, lower quality domestic imitations of both are even more readily available.
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