Comparisons of age-standardised incidence rates (ASRs) are only meaningful if they are standardised in the same way.
Although the general cognitive scores appear only mildly depressed compared with standardisation data (5 6 points or approximately 0.33 SD), the test used was standardised in the late 1970s.
Half of these are standardised in the Belyayevo mould, but the other half are mid-rise buildings arching around artificial hills and valleys, connected by glazed skyways.
Dr Krishna Kasaraneni, chair of the GP trainees' subcommittee, said: "These are the worst figures we have ever seen in GP recruitment since everything was standardised in 2007".
Of course, neither "reverence" nor its accompanying "longing" can be easily quantified and standardised in the institutional contexts that large-scale education requires.
The uniform was standardised in the 19th century and must be worn for all lessons, AKA "divs" or "schools" in Eton's elaborate private language.
While this is the biggest change to the USB format since it was standardised in 1996, it's by no means the first.
Even the Orthodox church built near the lake in the late 1990s is standardised in its thin, tacky application of old Russian details.
The punishment for a cricketer, if caught, would be a two-year ban, but testing for recreational drugs, rather than performance-enhancing ones, is not standardised in English cricket.
Greyhounds have been bred for speed for millennia, but the sport was only standardised in the years after the first world war, initially in California, where dogs chased a motorised windsock – called, for old time's sake, a "hare" – around an oval track.
