Finally, the proponents of the theory often mistook analogous features (those that appear similar but have differing origins) for homologous ones (those that appear similar because they share an origin) and thus compared phenomena that were not really comparable.
Were pupils from different countries really comparable?
Are these four commodities really comparable, though?
●See if the "comparables" are really comparable.
It's just not really comparable to my previous London lifestyle".
But is urban growth really comparable between India and China?
FreeFile, however, is not really comparable to ReadyReturn.
("Literary fiction" and "genre fiction," one senses, aren't really comparable categories).
Cindy Cohn, the foundation's legal director, said that privacy rights and copyrights were not really comparable.
Rackets have changed, too, and the two eras aren't really comparable in many respects".
Mad Men/ Damages (BBC4/ BBC1) Two dramas that are only really comparable in terms of their brilliance.
