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Sir Francis Galton FRS FRAI ( / ˈɡɔːltən /; 16 February 1822 – 17 January 1911) was a British polymath and the originator of the behavioral genetics movement during the Victorian era. [1] [2] Galton produced over 340 papers and books. He also developed the statistical concept of correlation and widely promoted regression toward the mean.
Francis Galton as Differential Psychologist: Galton was one of the first experimental psychologists, and the founder of the field of enquiry now called Differential Psychology, which concerns itself with psychological differences between people, rather than on common traits.
More so than before, the terms nature and nurture were often juxtaposed in an opposition famously described by Sir Francis Galton as that between “nature versus nurture.” Galton began writing about heredity in the mid-1860s.
May 31, 2021 · Sir Francis Galton singlehandedly instigated the navigational settings for the discipline of psychometrics by presupposing that mental attributes are measurable. In turn, this presupposition became the defining pillar of the psychometric paradigm.
- Joel Michell
- 2021
Feb 22, 2023 · Wikipedia calls Sir Francis Galton (1822-1911): A statistician, sociologist, psychologist, anthropologist, tropical explorer, geographer, inventor, meteorologist, proto-geneticist, and psychometrician. But to see him as a member of any of these fields of enquiry is to miss the point that they did not, at the time, exist as distinct disciplines.
On his mother's side he was the grandson of Erasmus Darwin, physician, zoologist, botanist, and poet, and on his father's of a Birmingham Quaker who had made his money by manufacturing rifles. He himself was the eldest son in a family of nine.
Feb 10, 2017 · Sir Francis Galton (Galton, 1907) conjectured the psychological process of magnitude estimation caused the curious distribution of judgments he observed at Plymouth in 1906.
