simpleminded

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It also boils down the research efforts of an entire university to a single number to be used for simpleminded ranking.

From Scientific American • Mar. 19, 2019

“Human psychology is much more complex than the rather simpleminded economic model suggests,” Fukuyama concludes.

From The New Yorker • Aug. 27, 2018

Francis McDermott plays the same role she always plays, but this time with simpleminded nastiness that does not ring true.

From New York Times • Jan. 18, 2018

But Deresiewicz’s book comes across as so childishly simpleminded, I just have to believe he’s putting us on.

From Slate • Feb. 13, 2013

Since those forgotten afternoons when her niece barely had enough interest to turn the crank on the sewing machine, she had reached the conclusion that she was simpleminded.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez