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Averagarianism (it is an ugly expression, but averagarism means something else: average utilitarianism, and while close, it is not the same thing) is the legacy of an enlightenment quest to solve [[complex]] social and economic problems by “sciencing the shit out of them,” to borrow Mark Watney’s phrase from ''The Martian''. Shit-sciencers in chief were Adolphe Quetelet and our own Mr Quincunx, Francis Galton. | |||
The godfather of averagarianism is [[Frederick Winslow Taylor]]. | |||