> .. as statistician #ChristineAnnetteFranklin writes, #Nightingale was also a talented mathematician. In her twenties, she taught math to young children. She was particularly fascinated with #statistics and #probability An intensely religious person, she once said that “to understand God’s thoughts we must study statistics, for these are the measure of His purpose.”
https://daily.jstor.org/florence-nightingale-data-visualization-visionary/
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