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The phrase 'are not directly comparable' is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used to describe two things that cannot be compared in a meaningful way because they are too dissimilar. For example, you could say: "The GDP of a small country and a large country are not directly comparable."
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The two numbers are not directly comparable because the W.H.O.
Census officials warned that those numbers are not directly comparable because they do not measure in precisely the same way.
Many characteristics, like income and poverty statistics, are not directly comparable to similar data from the 1990 or 2000 counts.
New York and Chicago are not directly comparable, but the Chicago system at least seems worth debating.
Figures for the United States, which do include such vehicles, are not directly comparable.
I fully recognize that the two instances are not directly comparable.
Facebook and YouTube views are not directly comparable.
4. The Mavericks update and Windows 8.1 are not directly comparable.
However, the diverse readouts of these assays are not directly comparable.
The discharge data are not directly comparable to the groundwater pressure data.
Our results are not directly comparable to those of Neal and Johnson ([1996]), for example.
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