👉 Dichotomous is a scientific term that refers to two categories of individuals or things, often related to gender or sex. A dichotomous category consists of two mutually exclusive and equally likely options for each entity, such as male and female, right and left, or any combination thereof. For example, in the context of a survey about gender identity, we might have two dichotomous categories: Male and Female. Each person in our sample could be classified into one of these