[krmboya]

The inclination towards reductionism by the more intellectually-minded folk.

We want to isolate a small chunk of a phenomenon and understand it really well, but in the process divorce it from its context.

We analyse cognitive performance in terms of a few isolated carefully selected variables rather than acknowledge that it is dependent many other variables present in its environment - physical, emotional, social

Good for developing expertise in a narrow domain, but perhaps not so good for developing a balanced worldview