171
Richard C. Hollinger et al., National Retail Security Survey: Final Report (Gainesville: Security Research Project, Department of Sociology and Center for Studies in Criminal Law, University of Florida, 2002-2006).
172
Adolphe Quetelet, quoted in Theodore Porter, The Rise of Statistical Thinking, p. 54.
173
Quetelet, quoted in Menand, The Metaphysical Club, p. 187.
174
Jeffrey Kluger, 'Why We Worry about the Things We Shouldn't.. and Ignore the Things We Should', Time, December 4, 2006, pp. 65-71.
175
Gerd Gigerenzer, Empire of Chance: How Probability Changed Science and Everyday Life (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989), p. 129.
176
Menand, The Metaphysical Club, p. 193.
177
De Vany, Hollywood Economics; see part IV, 'A Business of Extremes.'
178
See Derek William Forrest, Francis Galton: The Life and Work of a Victorian Genius (New York: Taplinger, 1974); Jeffrey M. Stanton, 'Galton, Pearson, and the Peas: A Brief History of Linear Regression for Statistics Instructors', Journal of Statistics Education 9, no. 3 (2001); and Theodore Porter, The Rise of Statistical Thinking, pp. 129-46.
179
Francis Galton, quoted in Theodore Porter, The Rise of Statistical Thinking, p. 130.
180
Peter Doskoch, 'The Winning Edge', Psychology Today, November/ December 2005, pp. 44-52.
181
Deborah J. Bennett, Randomness (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1998), p. 123.
182
Abraham Pais, The Science and Life of Albert Einstein (London: Oxford University Press, 1982), p. 17; see also the discussion on p. 89.
183
On Brown and the history of Brownian motion, see D.J. Mabberley, Jupiter Botanicus: Robert Brown of the British Museum (Braunschweig, Germany, and London: Verlag von J. Cramer / Natural History Museum, 1985); Brian J. Ford, 'Brownian Movement in Clarkia Pollen: A Reprise of the First Observations', Microscope 40, no. 4 (1992): 235-41; and Stephen Brush, 'A History of Random Processes. I. Brownian Movement from Brown to Perrin', Archive for History of Exact Sciences 5, no. 34 (1968).
184
Pais, Albert Einstein, pp. 88-100.
185
Albert Einstein, quoted in Ronald William Clark, Einstein: The Life and Times (New York: HarperCollins,
