Dichotomous in a sentence

On the other hand, if voters' threshold for receiving a vote is fixed (say 50%), this is a dichotomous cutoff, and satisfies IIA as shown below: B now wins with 60%, beating C with 55% and D with 40% With dichotomous cutoff, C still wins.

Karin U. Sorenmo et al, The estrogen effect; clinical and histopathological evidence of dichotomous influences in dogs with spontaneous mammary carcinomas, DOI: 10.1371/journal.

The nation since its inception has been experiencing one form of transition to another with an inference spectacular to the dichotomous views surrounding its political standing among countries in the world.

Taiwan’s New Southbound Policy is a response to this plural, not dichotomous estimation of the region’s geopolitical future, and Taiwan is vigorously building ties with Southeast Asia and South Asia through its own channels too.

Approval Voting, Boston: Birkhäuser, p. 38 However, having dichotomous preferences when there are three or more candidates is not typical.

Approval Voting, Boston: Birkhäuser, pp. 16–17 A voter that has strict preferences between three candidates—prefers A to B and B to C—does not have dichotomous preferences.

B now wins with 70%, beating C and A with 65% With dichotomous cutoff, C still wins.

Elenctic refutation depends on a dichotomous thesis, one that may be divided into exactly two mutually exclusive parts, only one of which may be true.

Having dichotomous preferences means that a voter has bi-level preferences for the candidates.

However, McLuhan's hot and cool exist on a continuum: they are more correctly measured on a scale than as dichotomous terms.

In addition, sex workers themselves have disputed the dichotomous nature of abolitionism and nonabolitionism, advocating instead a focus on sex workers' rights.

Meanwhile, behaviorist researchers used simple dichotomous models (pleasure/pain, reward/punishment) and well-established principles such as the idea that a thirsty creature will take pleasure in drinking.

Modelling voters with a 'dichotomous cutoff' assumes a voter has an immovable approval cutoff, while having meaningful cardinal preferences.

One of the poet's constant preoccupations, as part of his dichotomous character, is that of identity: he does not know who he is, or rather, fails at achieving an ideal identity.

Sir John Evans never changed his mind, giving rise to a dichotomous view of the Mesolithic and a multiplication of confusing terms.

The play's end brings all these dichotomous themes together, showing that while things may appear to contradict — Romanticism and Classicism, intuition and logic, thought and feeling — they can exist, paradoxically, in the same time and space.

The theistic form of belief in this tradition, even when downgraded culturally, is formative of the dichotomous Western view of religion.

Unlike the DSM and ICD, some approaches are not based on identifying distinct categories of disorder using dichotomous symptom profiles intended to separate the abnormal from the normal.