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With direct comparison, we use spatial reasoning skills to eye how one thing is relative to another thing. In the process, one of the “things” become the unit of measure.
With indirect comparison, an additional object is utilized as the unit of measure by which all other things will be measured. And the idea is to judge how each thing relates to this unit, or additional object.