[Adolphe Quetelet] developed the idea of 'social physics', since the regularity of societal statistics seemed to reflect an almost mechanistic underlying process. Just as the random molecules of a gas come together to make predictable physical properties, so the unpredictable workings of millions of individual lives come together to produce, for example, national suicide rates that barely change from year to year.
-David Spiegelhalter
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