Why are we drawing vertical cliffs in a Continuous World
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! Human biology doesn't operate like a light switch—it’s a dynamic, continuous gradient. Yet clinical medicine, epidemiology, and health tech are obsessed with drawing arbitrary lines across living tissue to divide us into neat, binary categories: Sick vs. Healthy, Normal vs. Hypertensive, High-Risk vs. Low-Risk. In this episode, we step away from playful research anomalies and confront the structural, architectural flaws in how modern medicine models the world. We inspect the crime scene of the cliff effect—the statistical violence committed when rich, continuous biological data is chopped into primitive binary buckets for the sake of software dashboards and clinical convenience.
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