If standardized tests are, as Professor Ronell suggests, attempts to define official forms of stupidity, does stupidity disappear if the tests do?
The meeting was the first with province-level officials, and it contrasted sharply with the denunciations and threats of arrest that have defined the official response to the protests since the standoff began.
The most precisely fixed canons are those that have been defined by official religious bodies.
And pure academic content, since much of it is defined by official syllabuses, is effectively a commodity.
About half of Johannesburg's households are below the poverty line, defined in official data as below a monthly income of 2,300 rand (£124).
Sexual violence, she explains, is about the exertion of power, whether the power is defined by official rank or by social status, and in both cases it is difficult for the victims to speak up.
As defined in Official Baseball Rule 2.00: "An infield fly is a fair fly ball (not including a line drive nor an attempted bunt) which can be caught by an infielder with ordinary effort, when first and second, or first, second and third bases are occupied, before two are out".
Is it something which can be defined by official statistics?
There are international rules about what can be defined as "official development assistance" or "aid".
