“dichotomania: the compulsion to replace quantities with dichotomies (‘black-and-white thinking’), even when such dichotomization is unnecessary and misleading for inference.”
Floating point and multi-precision numbers are used all the time on base 2 digital computers. From: Friam <[email protected]> on behalf of Roger Critchlow <[email protected]> Reply-To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <[email protected]> Date: Friday, September 13, 2019 at 9:08 PM To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <[email protected]> Subject: [FRIAM] a problem in how we think, not just in how we act It's funny that this should show up twice on my desktop the same day as Frank's rant. https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2019/09/13/deterministic-thinking-dichotomania<https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2019/09/13/deterministic-thinking-dichotomania/> -- rec --
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