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Quetelet's soldiers and the error curve
The chest measurements Quetelet used to claim human variation follows the astronomers' error curve, with that curve drawn over them.

Source
Svelte, builder, JSON
<script lang="ts">
import {
GeomFunction,
GeomPoint,
GGPlot,
Labs,
ThemeClassic,
} from "@ggsvelte/svelte";
import { chestSizes } from "./data.js";
</script>
<GGPlot data={chestSizes} aes={{ x: "chest" }} width={640} height={400}>
<ThemeClassic />
<Labs
title="Quetelet's soldiers and the error curve"
subtitle="5,738 Scottish chests against a normal with the same mean and spread"
x="Chest circumference (inches)"
y="Share of soldiers"
/>
<GeomPoint aes={{ y: "share" }} size={3} />
<GeomFunction
fun="dnorm"
n={201}
xlim={[32, 49]}
args={{ mean: 39.83, sd: 2.05 }}
linewidth={2}
alpha={0.95}
/>
</GGPlot>
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