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    $\begingroup$ Excellent comments on a pervasive issue. It's important to propagandise for thoroughly quantitative thinking here. There is already too much emphasis on crossing thresholds, e.g. above some level disaster, below some level comfort. $\endgroup$ Commented Sep 4, 2013 at 10:54
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    $\begingroup$ I would challenge anyone to show a validation of any cutoffs used by physicians. $\endgroup$ Commented Sep 4, 2013 at 11:38
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    $\begingroup$ It's worth noting that this binning approach does have some benefits in other areas - it's particularly popular when combined with large neural nets for predicting multi-modal distributions such as vehicle orientation. See arxiv.org/abs/1612.00496 for example. $\endgroup$ Commented May 27, 2018 at 10:43