【生誕200年】ナイチンゲールは科学を可視化する力を理解していた
Victorian
icon Florence Nightingale is best known as the founder of modern nursing. But
Nightingale, who would have celebrated
her 200th birthday on May 12, was also a statistics and data visualization
pioneer who sought to illustrate that simple sanitation techniques, such as
handwashing, could stop the spread of infectious diseases (SN: 1/5/20). While that’s a particularly timely message given the ongoing
coronavirus pandemic, it wasn’t one widely known, or even believed, in the
mid-1800s.
Nightingale’s
best-known
diagram is a variation of a pie chart known as a rose, or polar area,
chart. In that diagram, she showed that poor sanitation, not battle wounds, lay
behind most English soldiers’ deaths during the Crimean War in the 1850s and
that such deaths were avoidable, says statistics historian Eileen Magnello of
University College London. It “provided unequivocal evidential data that
preventable contagious diseases could be eliminated.”
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俺はアルチンゲール
ない？ちん毛
やっぱサザビーの方がいいわ
統計学の鬼で直言家。何で天使呼ばわりされるのかわからん人。
病気になったはずなのにすげぇわ
看護師の汚部屋率の高さ
ナイチンゲールの真の功績はこれ 「自己犠牲に頼る奉仕は長続きしない」 (金も払わずに働けって言われても、そんなもん誰もやんねーよ) という名言を残したこと
ナイチンゲールは、まだまだ過小評価されてると思うわ。