Not simplistic extrapolation.

This is far too simplistic.

I think that is too simplistic.

But it's very simple. It's very simplistic.

So, that's basically very simplistic technology of how this works.

But that's very simplistic, so let's go down and look at Tanzania.

Now it's really too simplistic to say that older people are happy.

How did this simplistic, certainly unscientific, and frequently damaging approach gain such dominance?

Well the best way to look at that is to do a tiny bit of simplistic statistics.

Now, a simplistic answer would be, the doctors are doing this because they want to protect themselves legally.

And someone stood up to say that one of the frustrating things is that it's been a simplistic debate.

The United States does not accept the overly simplistic solution of merely increasing assessed contributions to the United Nations.

But one hopes that campaign promises won t tie the new leader s hands, as so often happens in electoral politics. Simplistic ideologies got the world into the mess in which it now finds itself, and simplistic prescriptions (even of the tough love austerity form) will only compound the problems.

The mindset that characterizes Governments as being of the left or of the right is a simplistic view that produces a polarized political atmosphere.

The negotiating attitude and position of developing countries regarding the various areas of Doha negotiations should not be interpreted as simplistic defensive or offensive approaches.

ISTANBUL A simplistic (actually, naive) view of markets is that they exist almost in a state of nature, and that the best of all worlds is one where they are free to operate without government interference. An equally simplistic view of democracy is that it is a political system in which periodic competitive elections give the winner the right to govern without constraint.

And the kind of simplistic solutions that we sometimes have, to think that doing everything by hand is going to be the solution, is really not morally justified.

Better technologies have allowed the world economy to continue to grow despite tough resource constraints in the past. But simplistic free market optimism is misplaced for at least four reasons.

A few codes provide simplistic mechanisms for reporting suspected occurrences of non compliance, such as the one found in the Code of Ethics of the Association of Engineering Technicians and Technologists of Newfoundland.

In addition, the already devastating differences that exist between States are even greater than the statistics currently show, using simplistic and rigid criteria such as per capita income, which does not accurately reflect reality.

The simplistic diagnosis of Europe s woes that the crisis countries were living beyond their means is clearly at least partly wrong. Spain and Ireland had fiscal surpluses and low debt GDP ratios before the crisis.

There was generally a simplistic approach about security sector reform on the African continent, which had led to an overriding focus on downsizing and not enough analysis of what kinds of military forces were necessary in Africa.

So, when the USDA finally acknowledged that it was plants, rather than animals, that made people healthy, they encouraged us, via their overly simplistic food pyramid, to eat five servings of fruits and vegetables a day, along with more carbs.

In the early 1980 s, they fell under the spell of monetarism, a simplistic economic theory promoted by Milton Friedman. After monetarism was discredited at great cost to those countries that succumbed to it the quest began for a new mantra.

Today s tendency to view Muslim grievances in one dimensional terms reduces political discourse to a very simplistic level. Our interactions with Muslims may be unconsciously influenced by this defensive reflex, and that may encourage equally defensive attitudes on their part.

No wonder Bush regards the choice of Cheney as such a key decision. Ideas matter in politics and having only a few simplistic ones of his own, Bush found his agenda shaped and dominated by his clever surrogate and deputy.

In the early 1980 s, they fell under the spell of monetarism, a simplistic economic theory promoted by Milton Friedman. After monetarism was discredited at great cost to those countries that succumbed to it the quest began for a new mantra.

The crisis faced by the European Union and the eurozone is a telling example of the need for a narrative that explains public policy and generates political support for it. A successful narrative can be neither too complicated nor simplistic.

That is why a knee jerk, simplistic Washington Consensus prescription of more liberalization and privatization is inappropriate for the Arab world in 2012. There is a clear political need for a growth strategy in which inclusion is the centerpiece, not an afterthought.

Because if enough people do it, we can change society's definition of success away from the moronically simplistic notion that the person with the most money when he dies wins, to a more thoughtful and balanced definition of what a life well lived looks like.

The US of 2013 is both more reflective than it was a decade ago and more consciously connected to the world. The result is a citizenry that is less likely to interpret events, even attacks, in simplistic and often counter productive us versus them terms.

One extreme is the simplistic Keynesian remedy that assumes that government deficits don t matter when the economy is in deep recession indeed, the bigger the better. At the opposite extreme are the debt ceiling absolutists who want governments to start balancing their budgets tomorrow (if not yesterday).

HONG KONG Too often, debate about the relationship between the state and the market casts them as opposing forces locked in a zero sum struggle. But this simplistic approach quickly turns constructive discussion into a casualty of the ideological battle between advocates of state and market capitalism.

Four years into a disastrous military adventure in Iraq and with the global war on terror against ill defined forces of darkness still inconclusive, the collapse of America s grand strategy has exposed how ill conceived was its simplistic recipe for democratic change in the Arab world.

In Egypt, Hosni Mubarak s rule helped to moderate the Israeli Palestinian conflict and balanced Iranian power in the region. Simplistic endorsement of democracy by George W. Bush s administration was costly both in Iraq and in Gaza, where elections gave rise to a hostile Hamas led government.

Gender mainstreaming has not been visible or explicit There is no corporate strategic plan for putting the gender mainstreaming policy into effect Steps have been simplistic and mechanistic and UNDP has not acted on previous assessments identifying similar shortcomings, and has sent mixed signals about its commitment and expectations.

Of course, the logic behind calls to restrict our freedoms has a simplistic appeal extremists use our freedoms to commit their crimes, so preventing the abuse of freedom requires curtailing freedom s scope. The mistake, however, is to assume that open societies are more permissive and vulnerable to terrorism than those who live under authoritarian regimes.

The idea that hyper low interest rates are merely symptoms of deficient demand or financial repression is dangerously simplistic. Surely heightened public concern about the risk of future economic catastrophe in the wake of the financial crisis is still playing an important role, reinforced by lingering fragility in the eurozone and rising instability in emerging markets.

Premier Wen himself indicated as much in a speech in August that was widely noted abroad, but largely blacked out in Chinese media. The global media should now go further, and begin to examine the many features of the rise of China and India that depart from the simplistic narrative of the triumph of market reform.

Oil was not the cause of the Iraq War in the simplistic sense that American control of Iraqi oil would make it more secure. The world s dependence on Persian Gulf oil means that all countries have an interest in maintaining stability in that region, while improving energy efficiency and increasing the diversity of their overall energy supplies.

For there to be any genuine possibility of a lasting resolution to the conflict, all parties, including the international community, have to abandon the simplistic and one sided representations that have distorted the true reality, and recognize that no side has a monopoly on suffering and that the dreams of neither side can be fulfilled in full.

Sovereignty has thus become a particularly seductive concept for citizens of the southern member countries, who have increasingly come to believe that the EU's rigid structure has been imposed upon them. Meanwhile, the northern EU countries are falling prey to a simplistic message of their own that their southern counterparts are irresponsible spendthrifts who should be left to solve their own problems.

Unlike in the past, when Chinese Internet users passively received information, years of exposure to concepts such as human rights and democracy have emboldened them to challenge entrenched yet dubious views, even if it means iconoclasm. Chinese audiences are as fed up with the glowing encomiums broadcast by CCTV as they are with the simplistic, context free reporting of Western media.

And yet, blaming the creditors for their punitive conditions, as Greek negotiators have done, would also be a mistake, for this simplistic narrative too obscures a complicated truth. Right before the talks were abruptly cut off for Greece to hold its referendum, the two sides had agreed on fiscal targets for Greece all that was left was to determine how the targets should be reached.

Contrary to much conventional wisdom, populism is not defined by a particular electoral constituency such as the lower middle class or by simplistic policies pandering to the masses, as liberal observers often argue. Rather, populism is a thoroughly moralized conception of politics, and a populist is a politician who claims that he or she and only he or she truly represents the people, thus relegating all political opponents to the role of iniquitous pretenders.