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Individuals and groups

While the individual man is an insoluble puzzle, in the aggregate he becomes a mathematical certainty. You can, for example, never foretell what any one man will do, but you can say with precision what an average number will be up to. Individuals vary, but percentages remain constant. So says the statistician

Sherlock Holmes in “The Sign of Four”. Via Gaussianos

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Professor at Northeastern University. Working on Complex Systems, Social Networks and Urban Science.