"I'd be pretty careful with comparing Enron to CMS," he said.
There's just one problem — make that three — with comparing Iraq 2007 to Bosnia 1995.
There has long been a fascination with comparing the UK's teaching system with what's in place elsewhere in the world.
People need to calm down with comparing every book to another, especially when the book's nothing like it!
"I think you're mistaken with comparing the look in Poulter's eye to Kevin Rowland," argues John Stonestreet.
The former is associated with learning and development, the latter with comparing yourself to others and a fear of failure.
And on his blog, Hertzberg outlined the flaws with comparing the Holocaust to the September 11th attacks and with likening the Park51 developers to Nazis.
Freud spent six years in Brücke's lab, during which time he was tasked with comparing the brains of humans and other vertebrates with those of invertebrates, to determine whether there were any essential differences between them.
This is precisely the problem with comparing short observational time series and model projections that was exemplified in the January 10 blog post ("A Spot Check on Global Warming") by your colleague John Tierney.
Another problem with comparing Kapoor's structure with Eiffel's is that what makes the Parisian tower so pleasing to the eye is that its shape was dictated by the forces of the wind, not by the foolishness of man.
To begin with, comparing, say, a new musical with a Shakespeare revival, and then ranking one above the other, is an absurdity.
