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    Sir Francis Galton FRS FRAI (/ˈɡɔːltən/; 16 February 1822 – 17 January 1911) was an English polymath and the originator of eugenics during the Victorian...
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    The Galton board, also known as the Galton box or quincunx or bean machine (or incorrectly Dalton board), is a device invented by Francis Galton to demonstrate...
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    The Galton–Watson process is a branching stochastic process arising from Francis Galton's statistical investigation of the extinction of family names...
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    mathematics. The Galton Laboratory was financed by Francis Galton. On his death in 1911, Francis Galton left his estate to the University of London to fund...
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  • is the inability to visualize. The phenomenon was first described by Francis Galton in 1880, but has remained relatively unstudied. Interest in the phenomenon...
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  • from the professional class and included eminent scientists such as Francis Galton. The Society engaged in advocacy and research to further their eugenic...
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    distribution is occasionally referred to as the Galton distribution or Galton's distribution, after Francis Galton. The log-normal distribution has also been...
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  • New York: Allyn and Bacon. p. 5 "Francis Galton, Sir." World of Sociology. 2 vols. Gale Group, 2001. "Francis Galton." Science and Its Times, 5: 1800–1899...
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    by year of birth and grouped into generations.) The relationship to Francis Galton, and to his immediate ancestors, is also given. (Note, however, that...
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    had a son named Francis Galton (1822–1911) who would go on to be a famous proponent of eugenics. Galton had another son, Theodore Galton (1784–1810), although...
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    2013. Retrieved 11 April 2012. "Correspondence between Francis Galton and Charles Darwin". Galton.org. Archived from the original on 11 January 2012. Retrieved...
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    domestic cats, and is used in their training. It was invented in 1876 by Francis Galton and is mentioned in his book Inquiries into Human Faculty and Its Development...
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    estimation in the classification procedure. The English statistician Francis Galton (1822–1911) made the first attempt at creating a standardized test for...
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  • University Press, 1981). Francis Galton, "Hereditary talent and character", Macmillan's Magazine 12 (1865): 157–166 and 318–327; Francis Galton, Hereditary genius:...
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    individuals. Number forms were first documented and named in 1881 by Francis Galton in "The Visions of Sane Persons". Ordinal-linguistic personification...
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    from Blakeney. His unusual first name is a tribute to his relative Sir Francis Galton.[citation needed] Blackiston has never trained formally as a chef. After...
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    (also known as composite photographs) is a technique invented by Sir Francis Galton in the 1880s after a suggestion by Herbert Spencer for registering photographs...
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    described as scientific racism. Pearson was a protégé and biographer of Sir Francis Galton. He edited and completed both William Kingdon Clifford's Common Sense...
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  • environment. Behavioural genetics was founded as a scientific discipline by Francis Galton in the late 19th century, only to be discredited through association...
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    mentally retarded with the term intellectual disability in federal law. Francis Galton (1822–1911) was a pioneer in investigating both eminent human achievement...
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    which nothing is lost." The assessment of intelligence was initiated by Francis Galton (1822–1911) and James McKeen Cattell. They had advocated the analysis...
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    prominent member of the scientific Lunar Society, and the father of Francis Galton the eminent Victorian scientist. He was born in the area of Duddeston...
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    square diagram. A previously-unpublished three-factor diagram by Sir Francis Galton existing in the Bateson correspondence in Cambridge University Library...
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    It was developed by Karl Pearson from a related idea introduced by Francis Galton in the 1880s, and for which the mathematical formula was derived and...
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  • which he thought contained determinants (genes). The English polymath Francis Galton, supposing that undesirable traits such as club foot and criminality...
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    across individuals. Number forms were first documented and named by Sir Francis Galton in his The Visions of Sane Persons. Later research has identified them...
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    "psycho-physiognomy". During the late 19th century, English psychometrician Sir Francis Galton attempted to define physiognomic characteristics of health, disease...
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    version of the Gauss–Markov theorem. The term "regression" was coined by Francis Galton in the 19th century to describe a biological phenomenon. The phenomenon...
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  • average person. However, the construct of grit dates back at least to Francis Galton, and the ideals of persistence and tenacity have been understood as...
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  • linked today with others, notably Herbert Spencer, Thomas Malthus, and Francis Galton, the founder of eugenics. In fact, Spencer was not described as a social...
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