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However, Labour's introduction of tuition fees and the Coalition's decision to treble them are completely non-comparable.
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Using the example of other countries (some of which have non-comparable populations, which no longer seems to be an issue for you) takes this hypothesis so far and no further.
The £6bn lie 2009
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Being impressed by someone is different than comparing them with non-comparable.
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Using the example of other countries (some of which have non-comparable populations, which no longer seems to be an issue for you) takes this hypothesis so far and no further.
The £6bn lie 2009
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There is no standard on what a 1 and 10 means, each person rating films according to their own non-comparable methodology.
Another Controversial Decade List: IMDb's Top 25 Movies « FirstShowing.net 2009
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Arrow's impossibility is obtained with the condition of Independence of Irrelevant Alternatives, which may be logically analyzed, when the theorem is reformulated with utility functions as primitive data, as the combination of Independence of Irrelevant Utilities (defined above) with a condition of ordinal non-comparability, saying that the ranking of two alternatives must depend only on individuals 'ordinal non-comparable preferences.
Economics and Economic Justice Fleurbaey, Marc 2008
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With the latter, however, they share the idea that only ordinal non-comparable information should be retained about individual preferences.
Economics and Economic Justice Fleurbaey, Marc 2008
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Bergson and Samuelson acknowledged the need for interpersonal comparisons, but considered that these could be done, in an ethically relevant way, on the sole basis of non-comparable preference orderings.
Economics and Economic Justice Fleurbaey, Marc 2008
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How it may have worked at your company or at a KFC is not particularly relevant...and an analogy to someone who changed employers two or three times a year is especially non-comparable to Kirby, who tended to stay at publishers for years at a time.
Comic Book Urban Legends Revealed #157 | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources 2008
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Interpersonal comparisons may be sensibly made on the sole basis of indifference curves and therefore on the sole basis of ordinal non-comparable preferences.
Economics and Economic Justice Fleurbaey, Marc 2008
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