5. THE FOX NEWS FACTOR -- Scary but true: with its simplistic, opinionated, personality-driven shows like "The O'Reilly Factor," Fox News Channel dominated the cable news business.
But as the sociologist Erving Goffman argued in the 1960's, this take on personality is simplistic and misleading.
In other words, the business arena is a lot messier and more complex than the political arena which Fox News was able to polarize with simplistic pro-war slogans, personality baiting and and us versus them patriotically-correct deception.
To focus on a few personalities is simplistic and the charge that someone cannot put his opinions aside when he or she is working as a reporter is flat wrong.
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.
"It's not just a question of Arafat's personality, this is too simplistic," Mr. Avineri said.
It would be simplistic to say that Adjaye's personality can be described in the same way.
(4) Are biological and evolutionary models of trait expression too simplistic to explain the relationship between personality, culture and health (Matthews, 2012)?
John Zuill, Bermuda: Allow a reader to quibble: The idea that personality cannot alter history is simplistic I agree, but Arafat was very much a product of his time.
While we may not be able to categorize the personalities of our children into the simplistic "wise, wicked, simple and too young" traits, we can appreciate the differences in our children, and can adjust how we interact with them accordingly.
