Experts are also prone to reducing complex phenomena to single-factor causes – factors which happen to align with their own expertise. But complex phenomena are rarely understood through such reductionism, just as most problems have many contributing causes, and the root cause may not be the obvious one or the one that confirms one’s personal or professional biases. Attempting to manipulate a complex phenomenon through one or two simplified variables is a recipe for unexpected if not chaotic outcomes.
— Avery Easton