Sentence examples for standards of comparison from inspiring English sources

The defense had not called a documents expert of its own to dispute the government expert's testimony, nor had either side considered the question whether the same person had typed both the spy papers and the "standards of comparison" — letters admittedly typed by Mrs. Hiss on the same machine.

These were well-defined areas of sky with stars of many representative kinds that could be used as standards of comparison, and the Mount Wilson Catalogue of Photographic Magnitudes in Selected Areas (1930), made about 20 years later, was for many years a leading reference for celestial photometry.

Third, each sampled experience is judged against relevant, subjective standards of comparison.

For example, a patient may use the same standards of comparison over time in answering three items, and may use a variety of different standards of comparison in the other four.

Conversely, change in the standards of comparison used in Example 5 does not result in an apparently invalid comparison over time.

When raters use different ways of thinking about events or apply different standards of comparison, more profound disagreements about QOL must be considered in establishing inter-rater convergence.

The problem is that the better times seem better only when one has a standard of comparison.

One factor that may work in Mr. Gore's favor these days is the standard of comparison.

And that may be the fairest standard of comparison between the Ninth and "The Rite".

But if one's standard of comparison is simply the number of buildings that bear the developer's name, Donald dominates the field.

(Ms. Viso's new home, the Walker, is an apt standard of comparison for the Hirshhorn: in 2007 only 35percentt of its 611,000 visitors reported being first-timers).