Word: yardsticks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...evaluating any research -"the only impeccable yardstick," as Masters and Johnson themselves put it -is the ability of other researchers to duplicate the results using the same techniques. But, say Zilbergeld and Evans, it is impossible to tell from Masters and Johnson's own account precisely what they did and how they did it. Among many unanswered questions, according to the two psychologists: How did Masters and Johnson define success and failure in sex therapy? Who decided if treatment had succeeded? By what criteria...
Security has been so easy for the last generation. A peace marcher now working in Carter's White House says, "I hate to even talk about it. The old 1960s measuring rods are useless. Concerns are so different. I have no moral yardstick. We must consider what we can do that will work, that will prevent...