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Then there's that competitive streak: you have a tendency to compare yourself with other people and also with Blue Apron, which isn't good!
In "When Numbers Mislead" (column, May 26), Stephanie Coontz decries our tendency to compare ourselves to an average that does not accurately represent the population.
Despite the excellences of the Broadway productions, most by Harold Prince, and despite the natural tendency to compare everything else with those originals, these productions stood up nicely on their own.
Warren Buffett described the consultants who advise on executive pay as Ratchet, Ratchet & Ratchet, and the trend we have seen from their advice naturally reflects a tendency to compare the reward of one CEO with CEOs in similar sized companies.
There's a tendency to compare and rank the wrongdoing we see on our screens, and the comparisons make us more aware of the jaggedly uneven distribution of consequences and, at the same time, less able, from the discomfort of our living rooms, to do much about it.
Ms. Cheney, the vice president's wife, brought a gift for the host, Jon Stewart: a Darth Vader doll meant to poke fun at the left's tendency to compare her husband's administrative instincts to the dark and malevolent force of "Star Wars".
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Meik Wiking, the CEO of the Happiness Research Institute attributed the results to people's tendencies to compare themselves to others on social media.
In addition, there is a tendency to downwardly compare miseries with other Arab countries.
The tendency of authors to compare between groups with high and low (or no) physical activity limits the utility of results.
There was a tendency to underreporting compared with the prospective data and the administrative data, which has often been reported in studies analyzing retrospective patient-reported data compared with administrative or provider data [ 4, 5, 12, 37, 38].
Migraine showed a lower tendency to remit compared with TTH (28.1% vs 44.4%).
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