The primary benefit cited for the SAT is that it provides a common national yardstick.

Standardized test scores provide a common yardstick that improves admissions decisions when they supplement other useful applicant information.

But there are lots of common yardsticks.

Money and career successes are probably the most common yardsticks.

Ebitda is perhaps the most common financial yardstick for media companies.

The SAT is the single common yardstick available to benefit both students and colleges.

We therefore have sound, common yardsticks for whether the community of nations is doing enough.

Human welfare at home and abroad is our common yardstick.

By the most common yardstick - legislation passed - the Republican takeover of Congress has not yet amounted to much.

He also said one advantage of the current study is that it uses a common yardstick that allows comparison between results at separate medical centers.