Sentences with phrase «simple explanations for complex»
Regarding conspiracy theories, the author says: «A likely function of this cognitive bias is to help people make sense of the world by offering simple explanations for complex events.»
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«The supposed Younger Dryas impact fails on both theoretical and empirical grounds,» says Meltzer, who adds that the popular appeal of the hypothesis is probably due to the way that it provides «simple explanations for complex problems.»
It seems to me that blaming humans for global warming is a simple explanation for a complex event.
Not exact matches
This is just one example of the many problems that must be overcome in order to find a «natural» explanation for the evolution of complex organisms from simpler ones.
Thinking is a passionate indictment of simple explanations — «the urge to insist that the complex is just a disguise for the simple was one of the plagues of the Twentieth Century» — whilst simultaneously broadening and complicating the terms of many of these debates.
«WIMPs emerged as a simple, elegant, compelling explanation for a complex phenomenon,» Kolb says.
«And for every complex phenomenon there is a simple, elegant, compelling explanation that is wrong.»
Dr. Cate breaks complex biological reactions into simple and easy to understand explanations and I think that Deep Nutrition will be a life - changing book for many people.
All these are complex carbohydrates, which release their energy more slowly than simple carbohydrates (for a detailed explanation of the two, see this article).
It contains explanations and tools for learning and practicing dozens of math - related exercises, from simple functions to complex calculus.
«While this boom / bust pattern is familiar to macroeconomists, who have developed complex models for generating business cycles, there may be a simpler explanation based on human behavior.
A single Ptolemaic epicycle might be a very simple explanation for a pattern in astronomy, but that doesn't make it better than a more complex Newtonian gravitational interaction.
«We've seen, from the tutorial we've been examining [https://www.aps.org/units/fps/newsletters/200807/hafemeister.cfm], that the physics of climate change, regardless of how sound each step in the process might seem, is far too complex to satisfy Occam's Razor — we have no way of knowing whether a simpler explanation might account equally well or better for the known physical interactions.
While everyone looks for complex psychological explanations for confirmation bias etc., the simple truth is that there is nothing new in the climate debate.