[FRIAM] a problem in how we think, not just in how we act

[Marcus Daniels]

“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 <friam-bounces at redfish.com> on behalf of Roger Critchlow <rec at elf.org>
Reply-To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <Friam at redfish.com>
Date: Friday, September 13, 2019 at 9:08 PM
To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <Friam at redfish.com>
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/>

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