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What is a litmus test?

What is a litmus test? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (chemistry) A simple test for the acidity or alkalinity of a substance, using litmus paper.
  2. (figuratively, by extension) Any test which produces a decisive result by measuring a single indicator.
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Under the Federal Guidelines of 1971, statistical representation became the litmus test of discrimination.
The self-proclaimed American Bard, Whitman has also come to be seen as the litmus test for the literature of American democracy.
Now it appears that the infallible litmus test of whether one is on the right track is whether most people think the contrary.
The first is that, once again, we have legislation that is a litmus test in terms of the difference between this Government and the Opposition.
Their presence can be taken as the unfailing indicator, the litmus test, as it were, that the system under operation is a kakistocracy.
If the litmus test for aerospace integration is completely interchangeable air and space communities, such a goal is probably unrealistic.

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