When using sklearn.datasets import load_diabetes, the sex variable which is categorical, is scaled to continuous values. Is it even legal to scale such variables?
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Yes, it is perfectly legal to do so. Scaling such binary variables does not change the shape of its histogram and the shape is all that matters to most models.
