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Chests of 5,738 Scottish soldiers

The measurements Quetelet used to argue that human variation follows the astronomers' error curve, and so the data behind the average man.

Chests of 5,738 Scottish soldiers

Source

Svelte, builder, JSON

<script lang="ts">
  import {
    GeomCol,
    GGPlot,
    Labs,
    ScaleXContinuous,
    ThemeClassic,
  } from "@ggsvelte/svelte";

  import { chestSizes } from "./data.js";
</script>

<GGPlot
  data={chestSizes}
  aes={{ x: "chest", y: "soldiers" }}
  width={640}
  height={400}
>
  <ThemeClassic />
  <ScaleXContinuous nice={false} />
  <Labs
    title="Chests of 5,738 Scottish soldiers"
    subtitle="The measurements that made the normal curve a claim about people"
    x="Chest circumference (inches)"
    y="Soldiers"
  />
  <GeomCol />
</GGPlot>

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