Social Physics

Adolphe Quetelet

1796 - 1874

Notes:

• probability and statistics: a nascent field
• applications: errors in astronomical measurements
• social statistics:
  • individual phenomena (variations in body measurements), and 
  • social phenomena ( crime)

Part I

The Crimean War

(and how it changed nursing care forever)

How many deaths again?

A shocking realization.

The need to communicate.

Buried, in  830 pages of text.

Rose charts.

The problem is everywhere.

(or)

The bigger of two problems.

Dealing with opposition

A basis for comparison.

A mundane, but important form.

Part II

Germany's U-Boats

(and how it change the way wars were fought)