Word: litmus
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...even harder to measure is whether or not a student has an attention disorder in the first place. Because there is no absolute litmus test, doctors may be prescribing stimulants to people who don’t actually need them...
...ultimate irony, Levy believes, is that American women have lost sight of their own sexual happiness in their pursuit to conform to male desires. Looking and acting like a porn star has simply replaced homemaking as the litmus test for twenty-first century women’s femininity...
...litmus test for students: would you be willing to have public the information you are posting now? Could you justify, in front of others, the information you post?” he writes...
...decided that everyone, regardless of gender or sexuality, is attracted to Barusch,” Lepon explains. “Like, you could take a random pool of aliens and people and determine who the humans are by using attraction to Barusch as a sort of litmus test...
Then, of course, there is the abortion-rights litmus test. Despite the shrill cries of the left-wing Cassandras—who have rushed to condemn Alito as a fire-breathing Roe-overturning conservative—he has a decidedly nuanced record. In his four abortion-related cases, he has ruled in favor of abortion rights three times. Even in the exception, Planned Parenthood v. Casey, Alito merely ruled that spousal notification was not an “undue burden” on a woman’s right to an abortion, given that the law provided exemptions for unusual...