Mark Waid

There is a reductive nature to the Internet, and it's not limited to comic book news sites and stuff: it's everybody. There is a reductive nature of it, by which anything that's said very quickly gets reduced down to the next. Reduced, reduced, reduced to the point where rumors with some sense of nuance to them just become fact.

American Writer

Matisyahu

When a person listens to a good song, and they can look out at the world and their lives and see the dark and the light, the negative and the positive, all the different elements, all come together in one holistic poem, that is a very healing and very reductive thing, and that's what my music is about.

American Musician

Neri Oxman

Although I often find that the feminist rhetoric - not feminism - can come across as simple-minded, self-regarding, nuance-averse and reductive - biology to physiology, history to psychology, procreation to gynecology, and so on - I have come to realize that we should all be feminists.

American Architect

Julian Treasure

Men tend to listen in what I call a reductive way, which is to say for a point, for a solution. You know, we like to have a problem and solve it. Bang. Thank you very much. On to the next thing.

American

Kehinde Wiley

This idea that my work is about hip-hop is a little reductive. What I'm interested in is the performance of masculinity, the performance of ethnicity, and how they intermingle across cultures.

American Artist

Justin Simien

In the press, there's this desire for the black audience to be this monolithic thing that always responds to the same stars. That's a really reductive way of looking at the black audience.

American Director

Siri Hustvedt

The third-person or 'objective,' static, reductive models used in most science are important and yield significant results, but they have their limitations.

American Novelist

Ben Okri

We have fallen into this very mean description of humanity. Naturalism in fiction is too reductive in its definition of human beings.

Nigerian Poet

Robert Redford

It's an honor putting art above politics. Politics can be seductive in terms of things reductive to the soul.

American Actor

Adam Conover

Generational thinking has always been reductive and condescending.

American Comedian

Using 'reductive' may suggest a strong bias for simplicity that overlooks complexity.

Simplicity Bias

It can express a critical tone, implying that the simplification is an oversimplification.

Critical Tone

In some contexts, 'reductive' can neutrally describe condensing information.

Neutral Descriptions

'Reductive' in chemistry involves removing oxygen or adding hydrogen to substances.

Scientific Context

Remember, when used in chemistry, 'reductive' is technical and might confuse a general audience.

Technical Jargon

When discussing views or ideas, 'reductive' carries a negative connotation of oversimplifying.

Negative Connotation

Using 'reductive' in criticism can imply a need for deeper analysis or consideration.

Critical Reception

'Reductive' can suggest making something seem less important than it is.

Minimizing Importance

 it's a relationship with sound. And yet it's a skill that none of us are taught. For example, have you ever considered that there are listening positions, places you can listen from? Here are two of them. Reductive listening is listening "for."

Julian Treasure: Shh!...

 as a sort of universal personality test. Employers made prejudiced hiring decisions based on reductive decoding charts. As the test left clinics and entered popular culture its reputation among medical professionals plummeted,