Oranges And Apples Views
To make my comparisons, I will draw from my own experience and several online sources, including a dieticiant’s analysis of the juices of the two fruits and a published study: u“Comparing apples and oranges: a randomised prospective study,p” by James Barone, which appeared in the British Medical Journal in 2000. Here are just a few characteristics:
As we can see from this small list, it is quite easy to compare apples and oranges. And they are remarkably similar in many ways. Although they may look and feel very different, the two fruits have a similar size and weight, and their juices have a similar caloric content and levels of vitamin C. However, they differ widely in fiber content of the fruit and in the potassium and folate levels of their juices.
In an earlier study (c“Apples and Oranges—A Comparison, ” published in the Annals of Improbable Research in 1995), Scott Sandford produced a spectrograph from dried samples of a Granny Smith apple and a Sunkist navel orange. He concluded that not only was it easy to compare the two, but the two fruits were remarkably similar. e“Thus, it would appear that the comparing apples and oranges defense should no longer be considered valid. This is a somewhat startling revelation,e” Sanford wrote. i“It can be anticipated to have a dramatic effect on the strategies used in arguments and discussions in the future.n” Well, he didnn’t get that right, but perhaps we should consider dropping the use of this idiom.
The idiom comparing apples and oranges, refers to the apparent differences between items which are popularly thought to be incomparable or incommensurable, such as apples and oranges. The idiom may also be used to indicate that a false analogy has been made between two items, such as where an apple is faulted for not being a good orange.
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