Sir Francis Galton FRS FRAI (/ˈɡɔːltən/; 16 February 1822 – 17 January 1911) was a British polymath and the originator of eugenics during the Victorian...

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...

distribution is occasionally referred to as the Galton distribution or Galton's distribution, after Francis Galton. The log-normal distribution has also been...

The Galton–Watson process is a branching stochastic process arising from Francis Galton's statistical investigation of the extinction of family names...

by year of birth and grouped into generations.) The relationship to Francis Galton, and to his immediate ancestors, is also given. (Note, however, that...

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...

2013. Retrieved 11 April 2012. "Correspondence between Francis Galton and Charles Darwin". Galton.org. Archived from the original on 11 January 2012. Retrieved...

is the inability to visualize. The phenomenon was first described by Francis Galton in 1880, but has remained relatively unstudied. Interest in the phenomenon...

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...

(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...

individuals. Number forms were first documented and named in 1881 by Francis Galton in "The Visions of Sane Persons". In auditory–tactile synesthesia, certain...

from the professional class and included eminent scientists such as Francis Galton. The Society engaged in advocacy and research to further their eugenic...

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...

estimation in the classification procedure. The English statistician Francis Galton (1822–1911) made the first attempt at creating a standardized test for...

which nothing is lost." The assessment of intelligence was initiated by Francis Galton (1822–1911) and James McKeen Cattell. They had advocated the analysis...

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...

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...

which he thought contained determinants (genes). The English polymath Francis Galton, supposing that undesirable traits such as club foot and criminality...

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...

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...

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...

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...

square diagram. A previously-unpublished three-factor diagram by Sir Francis Galton existing in the Bateson correspondence in Cambridge University Library...

popularized by Sir Francis Galton during the late 19th century with the publication of Regression towards mediocrity in hereditary stature. Galton observed that...

primarily economics and psychology. The opening anecdote relates Francis Galton's surprise that the crowd at a county fair accurately guessed the weight...

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...

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...

to estimate the weight of a slaughtered and dressed ox. Statistician Francis Galton observed that the median guess, 1207 pounds, was accurate within 1%...

behind the concept. The earliest such research, Hereditary Genius, by Francis Galton (1869), argued that people vary hugely in "natural ability" which is...

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...