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  2. Adolphe Quetelet - Wikipedia

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    Lambert Adolphe Jacques Quetelet FRSF or FRSE (French: ⓘ; 22 February 1796 – 17 February 1874) [1] was a Belgian-French astronomer, mathematician, statistician and sociologist who founded and directed the Brussels Observatory and was influential in introducing statistical methods to the social sciences.

  3. Positivist school (criminology) - Wikipedia

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    Hence, environmental criminology and other sub-schools study the spatial distribution of crimes and offenders (see Adolphe Quetelet, who discovered that crimes rates are relatively constant, and the Chicago School which, under the leadership of Robert E. Park, viewed the city as a form of superorganism, zoned into areas engaged in a continuous ...

  4. Criminology - Wikipedia

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    Adolphe Quetelet used data and statistical analysis to study the ... In criminology, the theory of relative deprivation explains that people who feel jealous and ...

  5. André-Michel Guerry - Wikipedia

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    Together with Adolphe Quetelet he may be regarded as the founder of moral statistics which led to the development of criminology, sociology and ultimately, modern social science. Early life and education

  6. History of statistics - Wikipedia

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    Adolphe Quetelet (1796–1874 ... His book Theory of Probability first appeared in 1939 and played an important role in the revival of the Bayesian view of probability.

  7. Reasonable person - Wikipedia

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    American jurist Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. explained the theory behind the reasonable person standard as stemming from the impossibility of "measuring a man's powers and limitations." [23] Individual, personal quirks inadvertently injuring the persons or property of others are no less damaging than intentional acts. For society to function, "a ...

  8. Tom Brady reveals how he's handling Patrick Mahomes ... - AOL

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    Whether the Chiefs have received a beneficial whistle from the officials – a theory commissioner Roger Goodell called “ridiculous” Monday – Brady said that he never made excuses as a player.

  9. List of sociologists - Wikipedia

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    Adolphe Quetelet (1796–1874), French statistician and sociologist Anibal Quijano (1930–2017), Peruvian sociologist Richard Quinney (born 1934), American sociologist