However, all five chemicals were identified as good standards for cell viability detection 24 h after treatment, with Z′-factors ranging between 0.6 (10 μM menadione) and 0.7 (all other test compounds).
While it wasn't as good as standard 5.1 Dolby Surround, it still sounded far better than standard stereo.
But statistically, while many experimental treatments are as good as standard therapy, few actually end up being superior, and some are worse.
Do you think younger adults today will have as good a standard of living as pensioners today when they retire?
As the National Cancer Center points out in its excellent booklet, "Taking Part in Clinical Trials: What Cancer Patients Need to Know": "New treatments under study are not always better than, or even as good as, standard care.
Right now, online and hybrid offerings seem to be as good as standard lectures at transmitting this kind of knowledge, and, in the years ahead, they are bound to get better — more imaginatively curated, more interactive and with better assessments.
Barry Cinnamon, the chief executive of Westinghouse Solar, a competitor, said Solyndra and Evergreen Solar had tried new designs that turned out not to be as good as standard flat panels.
Asked whether today's younger adults would have as good a standard of living as pensioners today when they came to retire, Draghi responded: "That's our common choice.
Many well established techniques would not be suitable for randomized trials but, as new techniques related to established practice are introduced (e.g. middle cerebral artery Doppler assessment), well-designed trials are essential to ensure they are safe, clinically useful and at least as good as standard practice.
The statistical techniques were chosen to show that the lifestyle intervention was as good as standard care; most studies are designed to show that treatments differ.
