The KPMG 2013 Change Readiness Index, like all indices, is a reductionist measure that is intended to capture flavor not detail and to create debate, not dogma.
Another limitation relates to the reductionist approach of measuring creativity using word-based tasks alone.
Social and psychological sciences argue that these measures are overly reductionist and fail to capture the complex reality of dementia as experienced by those with the condition and their care-givers [ 23].
Reductionist data analyses, testing the measured variables separately for association with age, have been extensively applied.
But long-time campaigners in this area, including relatives of Aboriginal people who have died in custody, said the announced measure was a "disappointing reductionist version" of the type of service they had been promised.
To consider HIF-1α as the unique parameter to be measured might be too reductionist.
However, the evaluation framework is based on measuring participation and is, thus, a reductionist approach.
Regardless of whether, in a particular context, the reductionist or holistic model is appropriate, the two specified measures of health benefit overcome limitations associated with the use of relative and absolute risk reduction, but the latter are still needed to calculate the two specified measures of health benefit.
Touchstone is a rancid reductionist.
In light of these concerns, some may argue that collective fitting of model parameters is not the correct approach, and that a reductionist approach is more appropriate (i.e., attempting to measure parameters individually and then combine the results to determine an appropriate model calibration).
