Francis Galton The remarkable product of a grander age, this great Englishman stirred up every science of his day. His passion for measuring everything from boredom to peas led to the concept of ...
Galton's ideas soon gained popularity both ... the judges who presided over the Nuremberg trials of the Nazi doctors who performed experiments on concentration camp prisoners wisely recognized ...
What does this complexity lead to? Francis Galton had a strong desire to explain continuous variation in terms of normal distribution (i.e., the bell curve). To understand the occurrence of ...
Now, Galton may have had some pretty terrible opinions ... In fact, the normal distribution tells us far more than just how many times an experiment resulted in a particular outcome.
The legendary writing partnership of Ray Galton and Alan Simpson began in 1949, when the pair met whilst undergoing treatment for TB at Milford Sanitorium. By 1951 they were writing professionally ...