I know of scarcely anything so apt to impress the imagination as the wonderful form of cosmic order expressed by the ‘Law of Frequency of Error’,” the British polymath Francis Galton wrote in 1889.

For Galton, the experiment pointed to “the trustworthiness of a democratic judgment.” But why must we always defer to the wisdom of the crowd when it comes to allocating scarce capital in a ...

MR. GALTON'S recent ingenious book on natural inheritance suggests some remarks on the value of his method and results. In the first place, it is plain that the method of probable error, which he ...

About this article Cite this article GALTON, D. General Results of Experiments on Friction at High Velocities Made in Order to Ascertain the Effect of Brakes on Railway Trains 1 .

Writer and performer Brian Lipson talks about his interest in the contentious 19th century scientist, Francis Galton.

News Published: 01 May 1890 Dice for Statistical Experiments FRANCIS GALTON Nature 42, 13–14 (1890) Cite this article ...

In 1875, Sir Francis Galton, a half-cousin of Charles Darwin, published research in the UK publication Fraser’s Magazine. His article, “The History of Twins, As a Criterion of the Relative ...

WITHIN the last few days I have had the opportunity of making observations with Galton's whistle upon a large number of people and upon some cats, and I have come to some conclusions which are ...