No it is not helping it is giving you more damage
The term yardstick refers to what is a normal response. It really has nothing to do with a yardstick and can be used in many situations. A yardstick is a measurement that has been tested over and over and than that measurement becomes the standard.
Say the yardstick for a reaction time is 5 seconds
Meaning that is what a normal healthy person can do it in.
Joan has the reaction in 4.8 second. Well she is on the the bell curve and did better than the yardstick test measure.
John Smith was admitted to Memorial Hospital on June 6 and died while in the hospital, on June 10. The action taken on June 10 was an autopsy, I would say, but I am not completely sure.
Sleep, eat chips , watch TV, lay down and watch youtube.