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Galton's development of the law of regression to the mean, or reversion, was due to insights from the Galton board ('bean machine') and his studies of sweet peas. While Galton had previously invented the quincunx prior to February 1874, the 1877 version of the quincunx had a new feature that helped Galton demonstrate that a normal mixture of ...
May 31, 2021 · Two considerations steered him in this direction: first, his Pythagorean philosophy of science according to which measurement is a necessary feature; and second, his desire to present eugenics as a science, which, given his Pythagorean vision, entailed that eugenics must involve measurement of relevant mental attributes.
- Joel Michell
- 2021
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. The data from Galton's childhood, though copious, are more usefully dealt with from an Adlerian than a Freudian perspective. Galton's theory of innate and ...
- Raymond E. Fancher
- 1998
Jun 21, 2023 · About Francis Galton (1822–1911) Francis Galton, the father of eugenics, was born on February 16, 1822, near Sparkbrook, Birmingham, Warwickshire, England – died on January 17, 1911, at Grayshott House, Haslemere, Surrey. He was born into a renowned Quaker family. He was the cousin of Charles Darwin and was known for his pioneering work in ...
The Intelligence Quotient of Francis Galton in Childhood by Lewis Terman American Journal of Psychology 28 (1917): 209-215. The Life, Letters and Labours of Francis Galton by Karl Pearson. Facsimile of full text in PDF format. A new biography of Galton was published in November 2001. By the biologist Nicholas Wright Gillham, it was issued by ...
Jan 1, 2020 · Introduction. 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. For example, the device that he invented to assess individual differences in the capacity to hear ...
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Galton’s importance in the history of psychology resulted from combining interests in anthropometry, genetics, statistical methods, applying Darwin’s theory of evolution to human intelligence, and methods of mental measurement. The “spirit” of Galton’s legacy was summarized in his obituary in Nature (02/02/1911, p. 440).
