"They told us we were thinking too simplistically," said John Wort, chairman of the island association's board of trustees.
"I think everyone in the field worries that these studies will be interpreted simplistically," said Martha Cox, director of the Center for Developmental Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and a principal investigator on the Early Child Care Study.
"If you simplistically said everyone stopped smoking and used snus, there'd be a tremendous health benefit, but the question is whether they would do that," says Benowitz.
"We wanted to put the clothing and images on show, but we didn't have money, so we had to do things simplistically," she said.
"I think it will offer them an image of Spain and of Spain's transition to democracy that is neither the sun-sea-sex-and-sangría image that's been sold very simplistically," he says.
Simplistically it is something that you might expect people to say: "Oh, polar bears need ice to stand on and, if the ice is melting, why not just make fake ice".
To say they end up trading identities is putting it too simplistically.
Mr. Jiang went on to say that given the changes in the Chinese economy, "We cannot simplistically use whether people have property and how much property they have as a criterion to determine whether they are politically advanced or backward".
I guess then we can also say that there is a new divide in treasurers – those who simplistically view the world through ill-thought out binary oppositions, and those who don't.
Yet even as Nocera feeds our fascination for these characters, he often finds good things to say about them, and occasionally faults his colleagues in the press for simplistically dismissing them as criminals or confidence men.
