The phrase "as yardstick for" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when comparing or measuring something against a standard or benchmark.
Example: "The company's performance this quarter will serve as a yardstick for future growth projections."
Alternatives: "as a benchmark for" or "as a standard for".
These stars, cepheids, are considered "standard candle" stars of known brightness that can serve as yardsticks for cosmic distances.
Knowing the precise distances of these stars in the Milky Way makes them useful as yardsticks for measuring distances to galaxies much farther away.
These hairpin spike-in (HPSI) probes, designed to have identical length and similar sequence characteristics to shRNAs, may be used as yardsticks for artifact detection and data normalization methods.
If there are no unconventional weapons in Iraq, it will be important to prove that fact as conclusively as possible as a yardstick for measuring faulty intelligence.
Predicting that total expense ratios will become as important a yardstick for European investors as they have for Americans, Werdmlder adds: "Knowing only the management fee of your fund is like knowing only the brand name of the front wheel of your bike".
We're all running different races, and to use others as a yardstick for individual success would be as fruitless as comparing how well I can construct an analogy to how fast you can eat hot dogs.
The CGDI can also be used as a yardstick for assessing performances on clinical governance over time as well as between organisations which can be useful as a stimulant for improvement.
As far as Red River Rivalry games go, this one could serve as a yardstick for the disparity in the programs right now.
In our operationalization of neglect, we use R&D expenditure as a yardstick for current R&D efforts, as it reflects both the commercial interest of industry and the political commitment of governments and philanthropy.
