I believe that one of the major problems in the world is a phenomenon called dichotomistic bias: The human tendency to simplify phenomena by categorizing and imposing dichotomies. While dichotomies aren't necessarily bad in themselves, our tendency to simplify by imposing them when they aren't useful often gets in the way of justice, honesty, and good scientific research.

Some examples of dichotomistic bias have been pointed out by Stephen Senn in "Dichotomania: an obsessive compulsive disorder that is badly affecting the quality of analysis of pharmaceutical trials;" and by Frank Harrell in "Statistical Errors in the Medical Literature;" I believe the effects of this "dichotomaniac" cognitive bias also permeate society through a plethora of social and cultural issues beyond those outlined in the paper. I am committed to dismantling the grip of dichotomistic bias by counteracting false dichotomies with balance. In the words of Francois Chollet, "I want to write code that feels like art, and make art that thinks like code".