To reduce people to very simplistic categories is to take away the very things that make them human.
When we talk about race we do tend to talk in simplistic categories, spending more energy on labeling each other than on reasoning together.
Instead, rock art is a primary record of long-term sophisticated physical and symbolic manipulation of plants that fits neither into the simplistic categories of 'foraging' or of 'agriculture'agriculture
They say Feinstein used too simplistic categories and that his data would have been beset by "regression to the mean" creating a change in gradient, "even when there is none".
Where he should be expressing solidarity with progressive Muslims who would stand with him in opposition to violent extremism, he instead alienates them by a fictitious cultural divide between simplistic categories of a tolerant West and a Muslim world which he defines by its worst elements.
For the sake of simplicity, the remainder of this discussion is derived from a study which grouped them according to three broad (and somewhat simplistic) categories: globalisation and environmental change; social and demographic factors; and health and food production (7).
Mokgosi's notes reveal how the exhibition lumped all African art, regardless of origin, into the simplistic and infantilizing category of the "primitive," neglecting rich histories and varied cultural contexts.
It's easy access, it's not hard to enter data, once you know the categories… We've done such a good job of how to enter the data, like making the category simplistic so they can be entered easily -- we've done a lot of work on that.
Seeing life in simplistic "all or nothing" categories can have a detrimental effect on how people feel, as it stops them from understanding and engaging with the complexities of life.
Not the simplistic "Europe can't produce category leaders because it has no Google" debate, but a refreshing exchange of facts and views on them.
