In a word: Double

In a word: Double

I was watching a TV program and the words ‘double standards’ kept being thrown about with little attention being paid to what it really means. Like statistics, words can be used in any manner to support or debunk what someone else will call a fact. Fact, of course, is another word that’s thrown around like a football. But double standards, what does it really mean? “a rule or principle which is unfairly applied in different ways to different peo…