Incomplete margin measures also are unreliable even for making comparisons within the same industry.
After Clarence died, Jake did a few tribute shows, and he could sense the audience making comparisons.
In other words, making comparisons is inevitable, and you'll never kick the habit.
The problem is that, because we don't realize we're making comparisons, we don't realize that the comparisons we're making now are not the comparisons we'll be making later.
This creates obvious problems for making comparisons across industries.
In Mexico, an archbishop urged worshipers to stop making comparisons between Benedict and his predecessor, who drew massive crowds across Latin America and visited every country in the region before he died in 2005.
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If you're considering a fund in a category such as ultrashort-bond or Japan-stock that has seen some big losses, he says you may want to cut it some slack in making comparisons to peer averages.
In Mexico, an archbishop called on worshippers to stop making comparisons between Benedict and the former pope, who drew massive crowds across Latin America and visited every country in the region before he died in 2005.
So I would hesitate before making direct comparisons between Libya and any other country that is experiencing unrest.
Another ploy to frustrate agents is bundling or otherwise making price comparisons difficult.
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North-Easterners are making pointed comparisons between the amount of government funding for Scotland and the amounts spent in the North-East.
In collaboration with Mr Engle, he worked to create tests for economists to ensure that they were getting reliable results when making such comparisons.
Second, say psychologists, eyewitnesses would respond more accurately if they could see subjects one at a time, rather than seeing a whole group at once and making relative comparisons.
However, researchers cautioned against making direct comparisons.
Meanwhile growth in excise taxes has leveled off, making future profit comparisons look better.
Pick the best and then start making more precise comparisons.
Of interest though is that people in poorer countries who make downward social comparisons (comparing oneself to those who have even less vs. those who have more) are more satisfied with their lives than individuals making upward social comparisons.
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What volunteers had failed to realize was that the comparisons they were making when the chips were in their heads were not the comparisons they would make when the chips were in their mouths.
Be careful in making cross-Atlantic comparisons, since there are accounting differences.
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And then also, can you respond to all the Katrina comparisons that people are making about this with yourself?
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The solution is to force ourselves to consider this fact--to ask ourselves how much the future pleasures that our frontal lobes are simulating rely on comparisons that we won't be making when the future actually happens.
One of the themes UBS and investment banks have been spouting in recent weeks is that companies with strong sales outside of Europe should benefit from the drop in the euro because their sales should translate into more revenue in euros, making for attractive year-on-year earnings comparisons.
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