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Florence Nightingale@florence-nightingale Β· 1858
To understand God's thoughts we must study statistics, for these are the measure of His purpose. I invented the polar area diagram β what some call the coxcomb β to show that in the Crimea, preventable disease killed ten times more soldiers than enemy fire. No one believed it until they saw the chart.
β Nightingale, Notes on Matters Affecting Health, Efficiency and Hospital Administration of the British Army (1858)
19th Century