Nightingale's passionate commitment to statistics was based on her faith in a god of order, who created a world that ran by law. God's laws could be known through research, as a result of which suitable interventions to better the world could be applied. Statistics were a vital component in her holistic approach to health care as a system. They served both to indicate serious problems and to assist in policy making, and then again to monitor the effects of the new policies. She pioneered the use of evaluative statistics and saw reforms achieved as a result of her advocacy.
--Florence Nightingale: Passionate statistician. McDonald L. J Holist Nurs. 1998 Jun;16(2):267-77; discussion 278-80
“To understand God's thoughts we must study statistics, for these are the measure of His purpose.”
--Florence Nightingale
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