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To: general_re
No, because you already know in advance that they differ in ways that are going to affect the results... Right off the bat that's going to skew the percentage of correspondences in a way that really isn't particularly revealing or useful.

What? That is the purpose of measuring. Then an exact correspondance of the functional part means they are the same.

Apples to Apples and Fruit baskets to fruit baskets.

1,119 posted on 12/05/2002 11:59:08 PM PST by AndrewC
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To: Junior
Placemarker.
1,120 posted on 12/06/2002 2:14:33 AM PST by Junior
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To: AndrewC
That is the purpose of measuring. Then an exact correspondance of the functional part means they are the same.

Which is exactly what I'm talking about - break it down into the smallest functional parts and compare those, so you have analogous functions in hand, and do it one at a time. Otherwise, you've got chaff in your wheat. Then, you turn around and look at global comparisons of collections of functional subunits. Bottom-up, not top-down.

1,125 posted on 12/06/2002 6:08:44 AM PST by general_re
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