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Nordau and also
Despite the fact that Nordau was Jewish and a key figure in the Zionist movement ( Lombroso was also Jewish ), his theory of artistic degeneracy would be seized upon by German National Socialists during the Weimar Republic as a rallying point for their anti-Semitic and racist demand for Aryan purity in art.
Nordau also witnessed the Paris mob outside the École Militaire crying " à morts les juifs!
Nordau also, at the 1898 Zionist Congress, coined the term " muscular Judaism " ( muskel-Judenthum ) as a descriptor of a Jewish culture and religion which directed its adherents to reach for certain moral and corporeal ideals which, through discipline, agility and strength, would result in a stronger, more physically assured Jew who would outshine the long-held stereotype of the weak, intellectually sustained Jew.
Nordau was also a staunch eugenicist.

Nordau and Jewish
Nordau saw in Jewish Emancipation the result of ' a regular equation: Every man is born with certain rights ; the Jews are human beings, consequently the Jews are born to own the rights of man.
It was Nordau, convinced that Zionism had to at least appear democratic, despite the impossibility of representing all Jewish groups, who persuaded Herzl of the need for an assembly.
Herzl obviously took centre stage, making the first speech at the Congress ; Nordau followed him with an assessment of the Jewish condition in Europe.
* Max Nordau page at the Jewish Encyclopedia

Nordau and democratic
Whereas Herzl favoured the idea of an elite forming policy, Nordau insisted the Congress have a democratic nature of some sort, calling for votes on key topics.

Nordau and what
Nordau was central to the Zionist Congresses which played such a vital part in shaping what Zionism would become.

Nordau and .
* January 23 – Max Nordau, Hungarian author, philosopher, and Zionist leader ( b. 1849 )
* July 29 – Max Nordau, Austrian author, philosopher, and Zionist leader ( d. 1923 )
The term Entartung ( or " degeneracy ") had gained currency in Germany by the late 19th century when the critic and author Max Nordau devised the theory presented in his 1892 book, Entartung.
Nordau drew upon the writings of the criminologist Cesare Lombroso, whose The Criminal Man, published in 1876, attempted to prove that there were " born criminals " whose atavistic personality traits could be detected by scientifically measuring abnormal physical characteristics.
Nordau developed from this premise a critique of modern art, explained as the work of those so corrupted and enfeebled by modern life that they have lost the self-control needed to produce coherent works.
Max Simon Nordau ( July 29, 1849 – January 23, 1923 ), born Simon Maximilian Südfeld in Pest, Hungary, was a Zionist leader, physician, author, and social critic.
Nordau was born Simon Maximilian, or Simcha Südfeld on 29 July 1849 in Budapest, then part of the Austrian Empire.
Nordau was an example of a fully assimilated and acculturated European Jew.
Nordau went on to play a major role in the World Zionist Organisation ; indeed Nordau's relative fame certainly helped bring attention to the Zionist movement.
James mocks the author on the grounds that he exemplifies the then current school of medical materialism, stating that Nordau " has striven to impugn the value of works of genius in a wholesale way ( such works of contemporary art, namely, as he himself is unable to enjoy, and they are many ) by using medical arguments.
Nordau cited England as an exception to this continental anti-Semitism that proved the rule.
" There would be eleven such Congresses in all, the first, which Nordau organised, was in Basle, 29 – 31 August 1897.
Indeed the fact that Max Nordau, the trenchant essayist and journalist, was a Jew came as a revelation for many.
As the 20th century progressed, Nordau seemed increasingly irrelevant as a cultural critic.
Nordau, in comparison, seemed very much a creature of the late 19th century.
Nordau died in Paris, France in 1923.

used and statistics
In addition to mathematics and statistics, the arithmetic mean is used frequently in fields such as economics, sociology, and history, though it is used in almost every academic field to some extent.
Furthermore, in mathematics, the letter alpha is used to denote the area underneath a normal curve in statistics to denote significance level when proving null and alternative hypotheses.
In statistics, the term analysis may refer to any method used
Critics of corporate-led globalization have expressed concern about the methodology used in arriving at the World Bank's statistics and argue that more detailed variables measuring poverty should be studied.
General managers and baseball scouts have long used the major statistics, among other factors and opinions, to understand player value.
All of the above statistics may be used in certain game situations.
Commonly used statistics with their abbreviations are explained here.
In baseball, an at bat ( AB ) or time at bat is used to calculate certain statistics, including batting average, on base percentage, and slugging percentage.
* Sewall G. Wright used statistics in the development of modern population genetics
Business statistics is the science of good decision making in the face of uncertainty and is used in many disciplines such as financial analysis, econometrics, auditing, production and operations including services improvement, and marketing research.
Bootstrapping is a resampling technique used to obtain estimates of summary statistics.
The fantasy game supplement Thieves World, based on the popular series of books by Robert Lynn Asprin, used both the system for Advanced Dungeons & Dragons as well as the RuneQuest variation of the BRP for character statistics, representing the two most popular game systems of the time.
It was Pierre-Simon Laplace ( 1749 – 1827 ) who introduced a general version of the theorem and used it to approach problems in celestial mechanics, medical statistics, reliability, and jurisprudence.
Smoke testers send reports, which are then collated and used for a variety of presentation websites, including the main reports site, statistics and dependencies.
Census statistics are also used in order to apportion federal funding for many social and economic programs.
The Cauchy distribution is often used in statistics as the canonical example of a " pathological " distribution.
When Newton's method is used to find the solution for the maximum likelihood estimate, the middle 24 % order statistics can be used as an initial solution for x < sub > 0 </ sub >.
When a sample consists of more than one variable, descriptive statistics may be used to describe the relationship between pairs of variables.
However, in statistics, these terms are usually used for controlled experiments.
However the general concept of linear filtering is broader, also used in statistics, data analysis, and mechanical engineering among other fields and technologies.
CBC argued that intellectual property laws and so-called " right of publicity " laws don't apply to the statistics used in fantasy sports.
CBC won the lawsuit as U. S. District Court Judge Mary Ann Medler ruled that statistics are part of the public domain and can be used at no cost by fantasy companies.
The term Greater London was used well before 1965, particularly to refer to the area covered by the Metropolitan Police District ( such as in the 1901 census ), the area of the Metropolitan Water Board ( favoured by the London County Council for statistics ), the London Passenger Transport Area and the area defined by the Registrar General as the Greater London Conurbation.

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