The phrase "a rationale about" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the reasoning or justification behind a particular idea, decision, or action.
Example: "The report provides a rationale about the need for increased funding in education."
Alternatives: "a justification for" or "an explanation regarding".
The developed standardized patient information focused therefore on positive attitudes, an active response to the complaints and a physiological rationale about pain.
"There did not appear to be a clear rationale about who got in and who did not," said Pomeroy, the North Dakota Democrat.
An audit trail was also kept to record research steps, including a rationale for decisions about the course design and about data collection, management, and analysis.
There is enough information about mismanagement by this government to support any rationale about taking [voting] it out.
"Any three of us sitting here could come up with a rationale for bringing about economic change through the courts," Mr. Obama added, "I think that as a practical matter that our institutions are just poorly equipped to do it".
This is how I.Q. is widely understood — as being mainly "in the genes" — and that understanding has been used as a rationale for doing nothing about seemingly intractable social problems like the black-white school-achievement gap and the widening income disparity.
"The fire is already burning but that is not a rationale not to do anything about the Olympics," said one signatory, the University of Ottawa professor Amir Attaran who wrote about his concerns in an article for the Harvard Public Health Review.
"The fire is already burning but that is not a rationale not to do anything about the Olympics," said the signatory Amir Attaran, a professor at the University of Ottawa who wrote an article for the Harvard Public Health Review arguing the spread of the disease should lead to the Games being moved or cancelled.
They have also provided police detectives with a rationale to question individual protesters about their political activities.
'The fire is already burning, but that is not a rationale not to do anything about the Olympics," said Amir Attaran, a professor at the University of Ottawa who is one of the letter's authors.
