oversimplification

oversimplify | American Dictionary

oversimplify
verb[ I/T ]
us/ˌoʊ·vərˈsɪm·pləˌfɑɪ/
to state something in such a simple way that it is no longer accurate:
[ T ]The issue has been oversimplified for political purposes.

oversimplification

noun[ C/U ]us/ˌoʊ·vərˌsɪm·plə·fɪˈkeɪ·ʃən/

Examples of oversimplify

oversimplify
The authors note that attempts to apply research-based evidence on protective factors frequently tend to be oversimplified, targeting individual skills or competencies.
This statement perhaps oversimplifies the more complex motivations accurately suggested in the first sentence.
Both ideologies tend to oversimplify the issue by generalizing across a broad spectrum of secondary materials.
To say simply that doctors enjoy more success at collective bargaining because they are a historically professionalized group is to oversimplify matters somewhat.
Existing work on family, kinship, and household size and composition reflects different concerns, and so assigning pedigree risks oversimplifying contending views.
The major drawback of this approach is that the models of lexical processing and eye-movement control are likely to be oversimplified and/ or incomplete.
Their simulation contains precise (although greatly oversimplified) assumptions about a set of relevant parameters, a learning algorithm, and the primary linguistic data.
What might serve as good teaching cases in academic bioethics courses are often greatly oversimplified in order to illustrate theoretical distinctions and points.
Here are two examples, oversimplified for brevity and intended only schematically, to illustrate the sort of relations proposed among cognitive structures.
This tendency, however, to oversimplify complex and contradictory processes is evident throughout the book.
However, the computer will often oversimplify the measure because of its lack of knowledge of context.
Year 2 is the year of the journalist, who oversimplifies and exaggerates it.
The author finds earlier historians oversimplifying the relationship between early modern theology and philosophy.
I would add that both models oversimplify the situation, or, perhaps more accurately, they "undercomplicate" the situation.
The first is that his theory oversimplifies the complexity of societal culture.
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