It is a fallacy to say there is an apples-to-apples comparison between the ISM manufacturing survey and the ISM business services survey.

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The whole piece is excellent, pointing out the apples-to-oranges comparison between public schools and charters, noting that charters routinely push out students that underperform.

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First, that there is a sharp line between good and bad apples, and that a manager's job is to toss out the bad.

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His analysis is a clear improvement over raw, apples-to-oranges comparisons between government and private sector incomes that have many on the right so exercised.

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