a problem in how we think, not just in how we act

[Roger Critchlow-2]

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

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[Frank Wimberly-2]

Rant??  

I am a proponent, in human affairs, of both/and rather than either/or propositions.  In math I use the law of the excluded middle, however.

Frank

On Fri, Sep 13, 2019, 10:08 PM Roger Critchlow <[hidden email]> wrote:

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

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[Marcus G. 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 <[hidden email]> on behalf of Roger Critchlow <[hidden email]>
Reply-To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <[hidden email]>
Date: Friday, September 13, 2019 at 9:08 PM
To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <[hidden email]>
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

 

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[Nick Thompson]

Monocycles Are Everywhere! 

 

 

 

Nicholas S. Thompson

Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology

Clark University

http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/

 

From: Friam [mailto:[hidden email]] On Behalf Of Roger Critchlow
Sent: Saturday, September 14, 2019 12:08 AM
To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <[hidden email]>
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

 

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