The phrase "mere input" is correct and usable in written English
It is typically used to describe information or data that is provided without any added value or analysis. Example: "The success of the project relied heavily on the mere input of data, without any thorough analysis or interpretation."
This absurd LinkedIn story – there are no such profiles – is evidence of how precarious this all is as a line of inquiry: focusing on such fancy-thattery hauls the perpetrators of the most grotesque violence into the same sort of territory as the ice bucket challenge, making their crimes not news – real, dismaying news – but a mere input to the News Machine.
In a Keynesian's stance, the state is the controller that aims to stabilize the system, and not the mere input as in, for example, deficit spending.
Scenario thinking can be an innovative and explorative instrument of participatory futurology, if not reduced to a mere "input for a tool chain".
This is presumed to be a mere input error, as it is natural that the higher the grade of adverse event, the lower the QALY figure will be.
Both capitalists and Communists treated natural resources as mere inputs to create larger and larger outputs.
When games typically reduce even the most morally charged human behaviours to mere inputs, that's a vital distinction.
Managers at national and local levels need to be able to track what is actually happening with maternal and newborn services and programs, beyond mere inputs.
The best part of that is you can buy just the adapter for a mere $599, which will input full HD at 1080p into the camera.
The effects of the mechanical stress and the complex afferent input by mere WBV without additional voluntary contraction are not known so far (Rittweger 2010).
