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Comparing Apples & Oranges with Apples and Oranges

September 27, 2013 Marc Abrahams

Investigator Dan Fingerman writes: In light of AIR’s classic article by Scott Sandford on comparing apples and oranges, I thought you might appreciate this. Google has introduced an algorithmic way to compare two items (such as apples & oranges). Google will compare the two items when search terms are entered in the form: compare item1 item2. Here is the […]

Arts and Scienceapples, compare, oranges

Comparisons: Apples, Oranges, and Apples

January 10, 2012 Marc Abrahams

Some years ago Scott Sandford, in the Annals of Improbable Research, explained how to properly, scientifically compare apples and oranges. Now, Jerry James Stone, on the Discovery web site, explains how to compare Apple products and apples (the fruit): See the web site for more detail, including a larger version of Stone’s image.

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