getting in the right box
Simple vs Complex
In the tradition of Murray Davis, via this guy. Getting stuck in the lower right-hand “everything is all very complicated” box is a real rhetorical problem in social science.
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Thank you for reminding me of that wonderful article. That’s a great (and concise) graphical representation of Davis’s claim.
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Anthony
March 24, 2009 at 7:12 pm