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Michael Kaplan
Mon, 22 Feb 2010 11:30:00 GM
We owe this schizoid view of normality to a Belgian: . Adolphe Quetelet. , born today in 1796. Before Quetelet, statistics was a minor branch of astronomy: by comparing many different observers' records of the same celestial phenomenon, ...
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Chris
Mon, 31 May 2010 16:51:59 GM
The BMI was formulated in the early part of the 1800s by . Adolphe Quetelet. . In fact, some people still refer to it as the Quetelet index. What it boils down to is comparing a person's height to their weight, and then seeing if the ...
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FatBitch
Sat, 29 May 2010 11:21:01 GM
It's based on nineteenth century science: In the mid-1800s, A Belgian scientist named . Adolphe Quetelet. developed what became known as the Quetelet index as part of his pioneering work in social physics, his name for statistics applied ...
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patrickv
hu, 27 May 2010 22:27:09 GM
The formula first came up when . Adolphe Quetelet. published a study to define the average man in 1832. This study was not meant to determine obesity or obesity-related diseases. In his study, he found that a person's weight varied not ...
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hiCivil
Wed, 12 Aug 2009 00:09:00 GM
however, credit for the discovery of the shower's annual appearance is given to . Adolphe Quetelet. (Brussels, Belgium), who, in 1835, reported that there was a shower occurring in August that emanated from the constellation Perseus. ...
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Estee
hu, 13 May 2010 14:12:27 GM
Adolphe Quetelet. established a measure of the stars that was also used as a model to create a statistical norm of humans for political purposes during this period. It should not be surprising then, that this system of regularities ...
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unknown
Wed, 17 Feb 2010 09:55:00 GM
1874 : . Adolphe Quetelet. , mathematicien belge ( 7 fevrier 1796). 1875 : Friedrich Wilhelm August Argelander (22 mars 1799 ) etait un astronome prussien. 1883 : Napoleon Coste, guitariste et compositeur francais ( 27 juin 1806). ...
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sydney
Mon, 15 Feb 2010 20:54:31 GM
I am extremely excited to introduce . Adolphe Quetelet. to this comic. A man after Babbage's own heart, he began like Babbage in the field of Life Insurance, before expanding his interests to Crime-Fighting. No, really! ...
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admin
Wed, 28 Apr 2010 19:29:18 GM
college education oklahoma state university. Would-be past . adolphe quetelet. , jessica goldberg university of pennsylvania. Shneur zalman s science said an modern everyone of fulfilling longitudinal site scholars to develop universal ...
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Director
ue, 30 Mar 2010 18:01:14 GM
As we discussed in The Hidden Masters, . Adolphe Quetelet. was the first to adopt this pseudo-scientific method of study, and Quetelet was everywhere guilty of the the fallacy of reductionism. Once one falls into this intellectual trap, ...
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kisacaeinstein
hu, 18 Feb 2010 20:33:56 GM
1874 : . Adolphe Quetelet. , mathematicien belge . * 1883 : Napoleon Coste, guitariste et compositeur francais . * 1905 : Serge Alexandrovitch de Russie, membre de la famille imperiale de Russie, grand-duc de Russie . ...
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Arkveveen
Wed, 27 Jun 2007 07:08:00 GM
the person even read two books to find the information on lambert . adolphe quetelet. and the bmi's creation, the books are called "fat politics and the trouble with normal". i am beginning to think to nag to my mom to buy them both, ...
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Futura-Sciences
Sun, 13 Dec 2009 14:16:05 GM
Les premieres observations des Geminides, ont ete signalees par le Belge . Adolphe Quetelet. en decembre 1830. Suite a cette decouverte, les astronomes se sont mis a la recherche de la comete a l'origine de cet essaim, car c'est a elle que ...
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Dr. Shepphird
Fri, 15 Jan 2010 00:55:30 GM
In 1832, Belgian mathematician . Adolphe Quetelet. developed the equation with the aim of identifying the normal man. As Jeremy Singer-Vine writes in Slate: This project had nothing to do with obesity-related diseases, nor even with ...
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The Heritage Foundation - Allen C. Guelzo, Ph.D.
Sat, 13 Mar 2010 08:00:00 GM
There was, in other words, a pattern if one but stopped to look, and Fourier's tentative pleasure in observing this required only time and the methods of Andre-Michel Guerry and . Adolphe Quetelet. to yield a new faith in a physics of ...
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admin
Sat, 08 Aug 2009 22:25:43 GM
bmi, or body mass index, is a tool of body mass measurement that was created in the early 1800s by . adolphe quetelet. . this is why sometimes you might see bmi referred to as the quetelet index. . adolphe quetelet. was mathematician, ...
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unknown
hu, 04 Feb 2010 23:37:29 GM
It was designed some where between 1830 and 1850 by a man called . Adolphe Quetelet. who was not only a mathematician but also a scientist. Even though it's has been almost 200 years since Quetelet created the first BMI, it is used today ...
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bierja
Fri, 30 Apr 2010 05:38:49 GM
This concept of measurement has been of very overweight by . Adolphe Quetelet. , Belgian scientists in 1840 developed. A BMI of 30 or more for women and for men 25 or more is considered overweight. Obesity is also reflected in the dimension ...
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Jonathan
hu, 22 Apr 2010 14:40:12 GM
The formula for body mass index was named by a Belgian mathematician . Adolphe Quetelet. and developed by a doctor. Although there is no scientific formula that sounds, it is not always reliable. So if the BMI is useful to some degree, ...
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liegecitations
Mon, 25 Feb 2008 07:38:09 GM
1794. La Meuse gele a Liege ; des voitures la traversent sur la glace. Correspondance mathematique et physique, Tome III, Jean Guillaume Garnier, . Adolphe Quetelet. , 1827. Phenomenes naturels a Liege · Retour a l'index ...
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and is it an Accurate Measure of Weight and Health Dear Fitness Nerd Can you explain exactly what BMI is I recently bought a Wii Fit and according to the BMI calculation I m fat I checked some other BMI calculators online and am getting similar results But I ve never really considered myself overweight I exercise daily and think I look pretty toned but according to the BMI
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Q. Calculating the body mass index (BMI) is one method of assessing the obesity of an individual, taking into account both weight and height. This measure was created in the 19th century by Adolphe Quetelet and is still used today. The BMI of an individual can be calculated with the following formula: BMI = 703 * weight(lb)/(height)^2(in) The National Institutes of Health (NIH) lists the following categories of BMI values: Underweight = <18.5 Normal weight = 18.5-24.9 Overweight = 25-29.9 Obesity = BMI of 30 or greater Create a program which reads a file called persons.txt. This text file contains a series of records (one per line) each of which has three values separated by spaces (name, height in inches, and weight in pounds). Once… [cont.]
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A. Please put some code together that is an attempt to perform this operation. Then come back and ask for help as to where there are problems. Or at least attempt to show the work you did, and then ask us to fix it. You will learn an immense amount more than you would if someone else did it for you.
Answered by Chris C - Wed Dec 3 11:55:08 2008
Q. Calculating the body mass index (BMI) is one method of assessing the obesity of an individual, taking into account both weight and height. This measure was created in the 19th century by Adolphe Quetelet and is still used today. The BMI of an individual can be calculated with the following formula: BMI = 703 * weight(lb)/(height)^2(in) The National Institutes of Health (NIH) lists the following categories of BMI values: Underweight = <18.5 Normal weight = 18.5-24.9 Overweight = 25-29.9 Obesity = BMI of 30 or greater Create a program which reads a file called persons.txt. This text file contains a series of records (one per line) each of which has three values separated by spaces (name, height in inches, and weight in pounds). Once… [cont.]
Asked by kele j - Wed Dec 3 11:27:42 2008 - - 1 Answers - 0 Comments
A. Please put some code together that is an attempt to perform this operation. Then come back and ask for help as to where there are problems. Or at least attempt to show the work you did, and then ask us to fix it. You will learn an immense amount more than you would if someone else did it for you.
Answered by Chris C - Wed Dec 3 11:55:08 2008
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