Sentence examples for simplistic measure from inspiring English sources

One simplistic measure of spare capacity is unemployment.

A simplistic measure of its current situation would declare President Obama's Keynesian policies a success.

This is a simplistic measure of a bank's lending exposure, which can require a bank to hold more capital than its own calculations would deem necessary.

"It's an overly simplistic measure because politicians are obsessed with it because they just want to stand on the podium but it's just not going to happen," he said.

Not heeding such advice combined with an unscientific focus on a simplistic measure like "92%" does no favors for autism research.

Although this is only one, rather simplistic, measure of explanatory power, personality variables do not look better on other measures, such as Cohen's d, eta2, or partial-eta2.

"There is a risk that pressure to develop simplistic measures will eventually lead to harmful distortions in the quality of research that is funded by the research councils".

As such, it cannot be assumed that changes in more simplistic measures of extreme temperature directly correlate to changes in heatwaves.

On the other hand, said Amy Stuart Wells, a professor of education at the University of California-Los Angeles, "Our whole system is so enamored of using these simplistic measures that I don't see how we avoid judging charter schools by them".

"No sophisticated social scientist," he wrote about the idea of family breakdown, "would rest a broad concept on such crude and simplistic measures" as out-of-wedlock births, for there were many forms the contemporary family could take.

The most encouraging aspect of the report is the implicit move away from anachronistic and simplistic measures of competition (market concentration calculations, arbitrary spectrum percentage caps) toward a more realistic view of the ecosystem and its interactions.