For some, the new regulation, requiring a written test on the rules of the road, came as an abrupt suspension of a rite of passage from childhood to a teenage world of self-propulsion, independence, romance and cool.
In particular, since the appearance of McClain et al.'s study [12], it has been shown that many common tests of the rule are subject to high levels of false positive error [19] [21].
The delay could also put off any court test of the rule.
But the big test of the rule is not whether it frustrates publicity-shy celebrities.
The car pool rule went into effect last Thursday, but because that was a Jewish holiday, this week is likely to serve as the real test of the rule's impact on traffic.
He also said it was a "big test" of the rule of law in the financial hub.
He said he wanted to tighten the habitual residence test, one of the rules that determines whether EU citizens have access to benefits.
However, subsequent to the publication of the gastropod study, the standard tests of the island rule have been shown to yield false positives at a very high rate, leaving the result open to doubt.
To demonstrate the liberal nature of the standard tests of the island rule, consider results when deep-sea habitation is defined via the midpoint of the recorded depth range, i.e., "deep-sea species" have a range midpoint below 200m, and all other species are deemed "shallow-water".
The last several decades of constitutional law can be viewed as a kind of natural experiment--a test of whether the rule of law established by the Constitution can be maintained if judges systematically defer to government officials' assertions of power.
