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9 unusual facts about Francis Galton


Arthur Batut

Inspired by Francis Galton, he also produced composite photographs combining portraits of multiple people onto one plate.

Galton Blackiston

His unusual first name is a tribute to his ancestor Sir Francis Galton.

Galton's problem

Galton’s problem, named after Sir Francis Galton, is the problem of drawing inferences from cross-cultural data, due to the statistical phenomenon now called autocorrelation.

Log-normal distribution

The distribution is occasionally referred to as the Galton distribution or Galton's distribution, after Francis Galton.

Responsions

Pearson also refers to 'Little-Go' in Cambridge in 1842 in his biography of Francis Galton.

Rosalind Nash

She assisted in some of Nightingale's publications, and wrote on her behalf to Karl Pearson, when Pearson was writing his biography of Francis Galton.

William Barry Lord

Francis Galton wrote The Art of Travel in 1855 and subtitled it Shifts and Contrivances available in Wild Countries.

William Fleetwood Sheppard

Sheppard was encouraged to turn his mathematical skills to statistics by Francis Galton, whom he had met during his Cambridge days when he visited Galton's Anthropometric Laboratory.

Word Association

Word association research started as a psychological science with Darwin's cousin, Sir Francis Galton, who thought that there might be a link between a person's I.Q. (intelligence quotient) and word associations.


Germ plasm

The idea was to some extent anticipated in an 1865 article by Francis Galton, published in Macmillan's Magazine, which set out a weak version of the concept.

Mutationism

Their thoughts concerning the role of discontinuity in evolution drew on earlier ideas of William Keith Brooks, Francis Galton, and Thomas Henry Huxley.

The Biographer's Tale

During the course of his research he fails to learn much about the actual subject of his biography, but discovers a lot of Destry-Scholes' unpublished research about real historical figures Carl Linnaeus, Francis Galton and Henrik Ibsen.

Wilhelm Johannsen

His findings led him to oppose contemporary Darwinists, most notably Francis Galton and Karl Pearson, who held the occurrence of normal distributed trait variation in populations as proof of gradual genetic variation on which selection could act.


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