Francis Galton: Measuring the immeasurable
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Francis Galton (1822-1911)
Sir Francis Galton [5] was a British science writer and amateur researcher of the late nineteenth century. He contributed greatly to the fields of statistics, experimental psychology and biometry. In the history of biology, Galton is widely regarded as the originator of the early twentieth century eugenics movement [6]. Galton published influential writings on nature versus nurturein human pers...
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عنوان ژورنال: Significance
سال: 2011
ISSN: 1740-9705
DOI: 10.1111/j.1740-9713.2011.00508.x