The phrase "are often reductive" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something that simplifies complex ideas or situations in a way that may overlook important details or nuances.
Example: "While some theories provide valuable insights, they are often reductive and fail to capture the full scope of human experience."
Alternatives: "tend to oversimplify" or "are frequently simplistic".
When formal instruction is available, it is often reductive and mechanistic, [ 6] and fails to impart basic knowledge of rhetorical techniques, structure-content differentiation, style, clarity, and accuracy [ 7].
When the venerable tradition of the pseudonym is discussed, it is often in reductive terms.
Astley writes: "In politics, television, newspapers and advertising, language is often negative, reductive, stripped of full expression to put across a message – it's spun or twisted out of recognition … Instead of being used to communicate, it is used to control thinking, as a tool of power".
The latter are often grouped together under the label 'non-reductive physicalism', though this label is itself rendered elusive because of the controversial nature of the term 'reduction'reduction
Catalytic activities are modulated by component modification and system parameters and are often dependent upon driving forces for intramolecular electron transfer, reductive excited state quenching, and component modification.
Although direct coupling of glycans with proteins by reductive amination has been used, the yields are often disappointing.
Asian imports to the West are often marketed as exotic cult films and of interchangeable national identity, which academic Chi-Yun Shin criticizes as reductive.
In bacteria, azo-dye degradation is often initiated by reductive azo compound cleavage catalyzed by azo-reductases.
In bacteria, degradation of azo dye is often initiated by reductive cleavage of azo bond with azo-reductases (Zimmermann et al. 1982).
Since many commercial PCB mixtures such as Aroclors are highly chlorinated, microbial reductive dechlorination is often a rate-limiting step for PCB degradation in the environment.
