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Florence Nightingale: The lady with the stats
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Florence Nightingale: The lady with the stats
Tuesday 12 May 2020, 09:46 AM

Florence Nightingale 120 years ago argued for politicians to be better educated in statistics so they could make “progressive and not vibratory” decisions
Today is Florence Nightingale’s 200th birthday. The nurse often sentimentally depicted as “the lady with the lamp” should be better known as an early epidemiologist or “the lady with the stats”, writes Fiona Cassie
Stories of Florence Nightingale being worshipped by wounded soldiers on the wards of a Crimean military hospital helped create the myth of the “nursin
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