Although presidents routinely grant pardons to reverse what they consider flawed outcomes in the judicial process, most celebrated pardons serve a broader political and societal interest.
They in effect are saying that police officers doing their jobs — however horribly flawed the outcome — cannot get the same fair hearing in this city as a man who has admitted to beating a 7-year-old girl, tying her to a chair, holding her under cold water and denying her food.
Historian Russell S. Crenshaw, Jr. postulates that had the twenty-four torpedoes fired by U.S. Navy destroyers during the battle not been fatally flawed, the outcome of the battle might have been different.
But Jackson soon realized that this, too, was flawed, because the outcome was beyond Dimagi's control: How workers used the software depended more on the actions of Dimagi's clients NGOs and governments than on its own.
Three reviews published in 2000 covered the early economic analyses of telehealth[ 7- 9], and each reported that the studies were methodologically flawed; lacking appropriate outcome measures, consistency and clarity.
Evidence of the impact of trait anxiety on post-cholecystectomy outcome is flawed as studies used different procedures and outcome variables, and controlled for different pre- and postoperative factors.
Likewise, proposal of a suitable testable hypothesis with appropriate manipulation of variables was connected to measurement of outcome difficulties because, if the hypothesis carried inappropriate relationships between treatment and outcome variables, the outcome measurements were also flawed.
Retrospective assessment of outcomes can be flawed and a long timescale between diagnostic tests and clinical outcomes makes this more difficult.
Drug policy experts have cautioned that if lawmakers fail to act on marijuana reform and leave changes up to voters to decide, the outcome could be flawed legislation that doesn't do as much as it could to prevent possible harms associated with legal marijuana -- like the Ohio measure.
