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by ashitlerferad 3624 days ago
Sex isn't binary either.
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In the vast majority of cases it is.
A trait either is binary or is not (being binary is, itself, binary.) A trait that the vast majority of the time takes on one of two values, but other times takes on other values, is not binary.
male,female,null
Even if that was the exact set of possible values, that's not binary (though I suppose if someone overexposed to SQL might mistake it for a being binary...)