LucasWhitehead
importance of statistics
Here's an excerpt from Étude Medicale et Statistique sur La Mortalité. A book I found on Gallica. This is the very beginning of the book (obviously), and he begins by simply touting the importance and utility of statistics. Furthermore, in scanning some of the rest of the book (208 pages) I found other places where he does this again, saying how useful statistics are for governments and such. I thought this was a nice illustration of the effort we talked about in class that was put in to gathering statistics around this time period. I could not find information on the author, one Dr. L Vacher, so I dont know what his relationship to the french government was but nonetheless, I think the spirit is captured. I have included multiple other interesting pages from the book, for consideration. He compiles a great deal of data on death and cholera from four different cities. The obsession with stats is pretty cool.
importance of statistics
Here's an excerpt from Étude Medicale et Statistique sur La Mortalité. A book I found on Gallica. This is the very beginning of the book (obviously), and he begins by simply touting the importance and utility of statistics. Furthermore, in scanning some of the rest of the book (208 pages) I found other places where he does this again, saying how useful statistics are for governments and such. I thought this was a nice illustration of the effort we talked about in class that was put in to gathering statistics around this time period. I could not find information on the author, one Dr. L Vacher, so I dont know what his relationship to the french government was but nonetheless, I think the spirit is captured. I have included multiple other interesting pages from the book, for consideration. He compiles a great deal of data on death and cholera from four different cities. The obsession with stats is pretty cool.