The phrase "rational standard" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It is typically used to refer to a logical or reasonable basis for evaluating something. Example: The proposed policy will be evaluated according to the rational standard of cost-benefit analysis.
Ariely defines behavioral economics as driven by "looking at the same questions that standard economics is looking at, but without assuming people are rational". Standard economics is "basically a beautiful, elegant theory that tries to describe everything according to a set of very simple constructs," he says.
By any rational standard, I am disabled.
In fact, by 1990, he was not only at risk, he was, by any rational standard, hugely in the red.
By any rational standard, it's a terrible piece of work, yet its heart is in the right place.
If the nectar-drinking hummingbird were asked to exercise her will to the highest rational standard, she'd keep flying from flower to flower.
Dr. Henry Carter Kevin Spaceyy), the title psychiatrist of Jonas Pate's "Shrink," opening Friday, is by every rational standard a woeful specimen of the mental-health practitioner.
"Do you think Obama's been judged by any rational standards?
By all rational standards, "Vertigo" is one of Hitchcock's creakiest works.
Clinton is being judged by the normal and rational standards by which we (should) judge presidential candidates.
The revisionist school of early Islam has quietly picked up momentum in the last few years as historians began to apply rational standards of proof to this material.
Such strength charts should help in the development of more rational standards for handling packaged ICs during manufacturing and integration from the viewpoint of avoiding moisture-related failures.
