… as well as being a strong influence to Florence Nightingale who pioneered modern nursing
Edit: to clarify, Quetelet seems to be mostly a polymath who was really interested in the “average men”; him developing the BMI reflects that interest, as BMI was originally used to find out weight/body type distributions among people (somewhat analogous to how IQ was originally developed for identifying students who needed additional assistance in classes). Quetelet never did anything related to Eugenics, but he did become a huge influence to Francis Galton, who… did the rest
See also Francis Galton of the Galton Board. Statistics and eugenics ran hand-in-hand for a bit.
Reminds me of LLMs.
“Hey, this new math tool is cool! Let’s apply it to EVERYTHING!”
Did not have enough space in the title but… Yes, this guy was a strong influence to Francis Galton, which is where the rest came from. Galton loved the “average men” idea