Sir Francis Galton FRS FRAI (/ˈɡɔːltən/; 16 February 1822 – 17 January 1911) was a British polymath and the originator of the behavioral genetics movement...
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The Galton board, also known as the Galton box or quincunx or bean machine, is a device invented by Francis Galton to demonstrate the central limit theorem...
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Log-normal distribution (redirect from Galton distribution)
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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Darwin–Wedgwood family (section Samuel "John" Galton)
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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Dog whistle (redirect from Galton whistle)
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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Adelphi Genetics Forum (redirect from The Galton Institute)
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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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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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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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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individuals. Number forms were first documented and named in 1881 by Francis Galton in "The Visions of Sane Persons". In auditory–tactile synesthesia, certain...
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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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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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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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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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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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Gifted education (section Francis Galton)
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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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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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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primarily economics and psychology. The opening anecdote relates Francis Galton's surprise that the crowd at a county fair accurately guessed the weight...
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publicise the importance of inheritance and leave decisions to individuals. Francis Galton named this field of study "eugenics" in 1883,[VIII] after Darwin's death...
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Greatness (section Hereditary Genius – Galton (1869))
behind the concept. The earliest such research, Hereditary Genius, by Francis Galton (1869), argued that people vary hugely in "natural ability" which is...
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been predicted and avoided by the fleet. In England, the scientist Francis Galton heard of this work, as well as the pioneering weather forecasts of Robert...
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popularized by Sir Francis Galton during the late 19th century with the publication of Regression towards mediocrity in hereditary stature. Galton observed that...
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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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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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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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to estimate the weight of a slaughtered and dressed ox. Statistician Francis Galton observed that the median guess, 1207 pounds, was accurate within 1%...
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that Noyes coined the term two decades before Francis Galton created the term "eugenics". In 1904, Galton claimed that he had first come up with the term...
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Inquiries into Human Faculty and Its Development (category Works by Francis Galton)
Inquiries into Human Faculty and Its Development is an 1883 book by Francis Galton, in which he covers a variety of psychological phenomena and their subsequent...
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