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First named after the Belgian astronomer, mathematician, and statistician Adolphe Quetelet, who demonstrated in 1835 how adult weight normally increases in proportion to height squared, the index provides a measure of body weight, independent of stature, allowing us to compare the weight of short and tall people.

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And what he's done is he's actually reshaped, digitally, all of the contours of the mountains to follow the vicissitudes of the Dow Jones index.

This is the Hang Seng index for Hong Kong.

This is the world development index indicator data in the early 1990s.

And we just divide one by the other to produce something we call a suppression index.

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