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Apr 6, 2011 · Sir Francis Galton 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.
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Jan 23, 2017 · Francis Galton was an English polymath who made pioneering contributions to psychology, statistics, psychometrics, genetics, geography, meteorology, criminology, and anthropology. Galton was also something of an independent inventor.
- Dean Keith Simonton
- dksimonton@ucdavis.edu
Galton began writing about heredity in the mid-1860s. He believed we would discover laws governing the transmission of mental as well as physical qualities. Galton’s take on mental heredity, however, was forged by his desire to improve the human race in a science he would later call “eugenics.”
Abstract. While personal identification and psychology represented one prong of Galton’s research agenda, the second involved the detailed analysis of the data he had obtained from his Anthropometric Laboratory and the development of statistical methods for its treatment.
Jan 2, 1999 · The case of Francis Galton illustrates that a psychologically oriented biographer must be opportunistic in selecting which psychodynamic theories to use because such choices are inevitably constrained by the nature of the available data.
- Raymond E. Fancher
- 1998
Sir Francis Galton has often been described as ‘the father of psychometrics’, and as early as 1883 he had suggested that people of genius might also possess other psychological attributes such as unusually fine sensory discrimination.
Feb 22, 2023 · To understand his work in eugenics it is helpful to see his work as a succession of stages: he was a polymath, with boundless curiosity, and he contributed both ideas and methodologies to a wide range of problems. Who was he, and why were his ideas so influential? Francis Galton, aged about 50.
