This approach receives some support from the peaks in Table 2 for 25% and 75%, which would correspond to points along the S 4 scale.
also, as implied by Grice's (1975) quality and quantity maxims, the benefits of precision need to be balanced against the costs; this trade-off has been discussed within the framework of optimality theory (Dekker and van Rooy 2000;Krifka 2002;Blutner and Zeevat 2011).