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2 unusual facts about Proportionality


Alcohol myopia

Research conducted in 2002 determined that there was a positive relationship between college females’ level of sobriety and their decisions to engage in risky sexual behavior.

Proportionality

Body proportions, in art, are the study of relation of human body parts to each other and the whole


Ewing v. California

Justice Scalia was willing to accept that the Eighth Amendment contained a gross disproportionality requirement "if I felt I could intelligently apply it." However, because a criminal sentence can have many justifications—not simply retribution, a goal to which proportionality is inherently linked—it became impossible to intelligently apply a proportionality requirement to noncapital sentences.

Grdelica train bombing

Amnesty International argued that the attack should have been stopped when the train had been struck, and that the second bombing had violated the principle of proportionality.

Hubble's law

Combining his measurements of galaxy distances with Vesto Slipher and Milton Humason's measurements of the redshifts associated with the galaxies, Hubble discovered a rough proportionality between redshift of an object and its distance.

Perfect Symmetry

Symmetry, a harmonious proportionality, or "patterned self-similarity"

Robert Kennicutt

He shared the 2009 Gruber Prize in Cosmology with Wendy Freedman of the Carnegie Institution of Washington and Jeremy Mould of the University of Melbourne School of Physics, for their leadership in the definitive measurement of the value of the constant of proportionality in Hubble's Law.

Torsion spring

Determining the force for different charges and different separations between the balls, he showed that it followed an inverse-square proportionality law, now known as Coulomb's law.


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