Six months out, more people who had quit abruptly had stuck with it—more than one-fifth of them, compared to about one-seventh in the other group.

Soon however, Katherine found herself comparing herself with the people she was reading about on Facebook.

Hi, Susan! You’re looking very smart today!? There is new data out today that confirms that many Americans are not good at math, and when it comes to everyday technology skills, we are dead last when compare to other developed countries.

College graduates, for example, are particularly interested in driverless cars compared with those who have less education: 59 percent of college graduates said they would like to use a driverless car compared with 38 percent of those with a high-school diploma or lessWhere a person lives matters, toIt will not necessarily reduce road accidents.

As I was considering all this, a press release from a respected research firm crossed my desk, announcing that the five-star rating system that Medicare developed in 2008 to help families compare nursing home quality also has little relationship to how satisfied its residents or their family members are.

Werbach gives the example of several Disneyland hotels in Anaheim, California, which used large digital leaderboards to display how efficiently laundry workers were working compared to one another.

Despite being unaware that there were two types of instruction, teachers reported significant motivational changes in 27% of the children in the growth mind-set workshop as compared with only 9% of students in the control group.

But as it turns out, waiters see only a tiny bump in tips when they do an exceptional job compared to a passable one.

That was nothing though, compared to Germans, Italians, and the French, who stayed up around an hour and a half later on various days throughout the summer to watch the Cup.

Printing with moveable type on paper dramatically reduced the cost of producing a book compared with the old-fashioned ones handwritten on vellum, which comes from sheepskin.

Andrew Heidrich, an education network administrator from Sacramento, plays World of Warcraft for about two to four hours every other night, but that's nothing compared with the 40 to 60 hours a week he spent playing online games when he was in college.

By comparing notes with their classmates.

Lisa, our little company, and it is little compared to the giants in the city.

Chris knows that his boss likes Kim's work, and he expects that his work will be compared with hers.

"Say, you know, this is the best student I've ever had," says Kuheli Dutt, a social scientist and diversity officer at Columbia University's Lamont campus. "Compare those excellent letters with a merely good letter: 'The candidate was productive, or intel

As I was considering all this, a press release from a respected research firm crossed my desk, announcing that the five-star rating system that Medicare developed in 2008 to help families compare nursing home quality also has little relationship to how sa

Compare those excellent letters with a merely good letter: The candidate was productive,or intelligent,or a solid scientist or something that's clearly solid praise, but nothing that singles out the candidate as exceptional or one of a kind.

If you always compare yourself with others, you'll never feel good enough.

There is new data out today that confirms that many Americans are not good at math, and when it comes to everyday technology skills, we are dead last when compare to other developed countries.

While bullying is parents' greatest concern over all, nearly half of low-income parents worry their child will get shot, compared with one-fifth of high-income parents.

Nonetheless, 20% of well-off parents say their children's schedules are too hectic, compared with 8% of poorer parents.

Nearly half of high-earning, college-graduate parents enrolled their children in arts classes before they were 5, compared with one-fifth of low-income, lesseducated parents.

Discipline techniques vary by education level: 8% of those with a postgraduate degree say they often beat their children, compared with 22% of those with a high school degree or less.

But 50% of poor parents say it is extremely important to them that their children earn a college degree, compared with 39% of wealthier parents.

71% of parents with a college degree say they do it every day, compared with 33% of those with a high school diploma or less.

The president's stimulus package is pumping money into research to compare how well various treatments work.

It is also troubling that voting rates among our youngest eligible voters—18- to 24-year-olds—are way down: Little more than one in four now go to the polls, even in national elections, compared with almost twice that many when 18-year-olds were first given the vote.

Clickthrough rates have been high so far ( ' , around 3-4%, compared with less than 0.3% online), but that may be a result of the novelty.

All the plans would have to provide standard benefit packages that would be easy to compare.

The group that scored high on all nine of the risk behaviors was most likely to show symptoms of depression; in all, nearly 15% of this group reported being depressed, compared with just 4% of the low-risk group.

Still, as impressive as all this is, it may be trivial compared with what comes next.

In one example that demonstrated genetic differences were not fixed along racial lines, the full genomes ( ' , 基因組 ) of James Watson and Craig Venter, two famous American scientists of European ancestry, were compared to that of a Korean scientist, Seong-Jin Kim.

In 2014, there were 72,197 centenarians compared to 50,281 in 2000.

Other studies show that simply providing the facility for people to compare their energy use with the local average is enough to cause them to modify their behaviour.

Located only a few hours apart, The University of Tennessee and Tennessee State are worth comparing.

Though the United States has fewer women in the workforce(68percent compared to Sweden's 77 percent).

Third, give learners the chance to compare and contrast good and bad solutions to the problems.

Compared with a hundred years ago, our lives are less tightly bound by social norms and physical constraints.

Compared with that in America, the status of craft work in Germany is higher.

Comparing 1929 with 2007-09, Christina Romer, the head of President Obama's Council of Economic Advisers, finds the initial blow to confidence far greater now than then.

A key process in interpersonal interaction is that of social comparison, in that we evaluate ourselves in terms of how we compare to others.

Here, the important aspect is to compare with an appropriate reference group

For example, modest joggers should not compare their performance with Olympic standard marathon（馬拉松）runners.

Such programs can be expensive, of course, but cheap compared with the millions already invested in scholarships and grants for kids who have little chance to graduate without special support.

Compared with younger ones, older societies are less inclined to be innovative and take risks than younger ones.

They found that implicit bias has fallen by as much as 90% compared with the level found in a similar study in 2006.

Compared with early generations we spend more and more time working and have less and less free time to engage in leisure pursues.

They came up with 10 or 15 names, and that group of stars was compared with everyone else.

Fazio's Indiana study found that three times as many randomly assigned interracial roommates were no longer living together at the end of the semester, compared with white roommates.

Chris knows that his boss likes Kim's work, and he expects that his work will be compared with hers.

When you compare students of equivalent intelligence and past academic achievements, what sets them apart is hope.

As human beings, we're primed to compare ourselves to each other in what is an anxiety-inducing phenomenon.