The Binary Bias, a Systematic Distortion

Scientists have been documenting just how systematic the distortion is when we summarize evidence. We tend to make categories of continuous data, and there are other studies documenting this tendency. There must be a functional purpose to binerizing, like so many biases, right? That animal will kill me and that one won't. Well, exactly, life is about action, and action is either or. But i feel like you'r telling me now that we take in information only for the purpose of acting upon it in some a finite, irreversible way. Yes. Now, come on.