In the absence of an established threshold, we used a range that we believe is justifiable based on the USP guidelines, which allows for a wider range for analysis of single tablets.
This allows for a valid defence if the defendant can show that the publication of the materials was justifiable as for the "public good", which is defined as "in the interests of science, literature, art or learning, or of other objects of general concern".
In Florida, the stand-your-ground law has allowed drug dealers to avoid jail time; has allowed for the justifiable shooting of unarmed persons; and has been used as an effective defense for those who have initiated a fight, pursued their victim and even shot them while they are on the ground.
First of all, the law may limit the possibility of courses of action based on common sense or rationality, let alone allowing for justifiable exceptions to general rules.
Today, however, Mr. Schundler asserted that, in effect, he had been misunderstood for months: he said he had been speaking only about legislation that would allow people with a "justifiable need" to carry a concealed weapon to obtain such permits -- such as "a woman who is receiving death threats".
In a later paper again, Walzer allows for exceptional cases in which sub-state terrorism might be excusable though not justifiable; he imagines as excusable "a terrorist campaign by Jewish militants against German civilians in the 1940s if attacks on civilians had been likely (in fact they would have been highly unlikely) to stop the mass murder of the Jews" (Walzer 2006, 7).
Such theories allow for partiality that is permissible, justifiable, and perhaps even admirable in moral terms.
Having said all of that, and even allowing for the wide open field, McIlroy is the justifiable favourite.
This seems justifiable because almost none of the response formats allow for rapid correct guesses.
Both views are justifiable in real contexts, but our view is that if we will combine estimates from both stages, then we should allow for variation across both stages even when basing an estimate on stage 2 data only.
