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His writing about the music's early history lacks the depth and texture of Mr. Sapoznik's work, and it is beset by a tendency to use contemporary pop as an all-purpose yardstick.
Use a yardstick to measure the staves and feathers.
So why should we care about which yardstick we use?
You use a whole different yardstick than you used to.
"The yardstick we use for others will be the yardstick which time will use for us".
Use a tape measure, yardstick and pen.
Copy the strong lines from the photo to your canvas in light pencil, placing them as exactly as you want (you may want to keep a yardstick alongside the canvas for this purpose).
Ronson wants us to understand how imperfectly the psy-professions have mapped the shifting sands of sanity – and that's a laudable aim; but his methodology, which is to take his own neurotic persona and use its self-examination as a yardstick against which to judge the psychoses and personality disorders of the seriously disturbed, isn't really fit for purpose.
The former are given a yardstick to assess if a given asset portfolio is fit-for-purpose; the latter can assess differences of specific reference funds with respect to the optimal one, signaling possible cases of moral hazard.
However, for the purpose of measuring how inequality affects a community it is also probably the least interesting yardstick of the three.Consumption inequality, though harder to measure, provides a better proxy of social welfare.
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Since I tried Ludwig back in 2017, I have been constantly using it in both editing and translation. Ever since, I suggest it to my translators at ProSciEditing.

Justyna Jupowicz-Kozak
CEO of Professional Science Editing for Scientists @ prosciediting.com