The phrase "a more appropriate comparison" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing or evaluating the suitability of different comparisons in a given context.
Example: "In this case, a more appropriate comparison would be between the two economic models rather than the historical events."
Alternatives: "a better comparison" or "a more fitting comparison".
Did you select the group purely to enhance your own status, or did you try to make a more appropriate comparison?
Naturally, no one will be shocked by the differential in earning power between the genders and perhaps women's tennis is a more appropriate comparison.
A more appropriate comparison would be with Krzysztof Kieslowski's The Double Life of Véronique, a truly magical film, towards which Vallée may well be directing us, as he calls the girl with Down's Véronique.
A more appropriate comparison would be to the rates paid by the 10-year Treasury note or 30-year bond; the yield of the S.& P. 500 is still lower than both.
While it is fashionable and convenient to draw parallels between the political climate of 2016 and that of the 1930s, a more appropriate comparison might be with the early 1900s.
"To become a teacher or a nurse, you have to do a terrific amount of work," Bach argues, dismissing arguments that GPs' earnings might be a more appropriate comparison.
But I think Dallas Clark is a little more appropriate comparison, because Clark is more powerful than the other two.
Had a different, more appropriate comparison state been selected, the estimated beneficial effect of Medicaid expansion might well have disappeared entirely.
While certain chains overall performed better than others, the more appropriate comparison was really about single dishes, rather than a restaurant as a whole.
The review of personal monitoring data was the process that we hypothesised would lead to increased doctor-patient rapport, and hence a wait-list control group who did not monitoring may have been more appropriate comparison group to test this hypothesis.
Rather then send out these "takedown" notices themselves, they often pass the job on to contractors, some of whom call themselves "web sheriffs," a label that fits in nicely with Phoenix's wild-west metaphor, though the more appropriate comparison might be to the Pinkertons.
