statistician L. A. J. Quetelet (an astronomer, head of Belgium’s central statistical agency, and a widely respected expert on the collection of official statistics and probability theory).1 From Quetelet she learned that “Administration saves more hospital patients than the best medical science,”2 that is, of course, administration that was based on the best possible knowledge, namely, good statistical data. Sloppy administration was a worse sin than sexual immorality because its consequences harmed…
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