Francis Galton | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-05-10

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00:02:36 1 Early life
00:08:58 2 Middle years
00:11:54 3 Heredity and eugenics
00:18:25 4 Model for population stability
00:26:08 5 Empirical test of pangenesis and Lamarckism
00:30:02 6 Anthropometric Laboratory at the 1884 International Health Exhibition
00:36:20 7 Innovations in statistics and psychological theory
00:36:33 7.1 Historiometry
00:37:49 7.2 The lexical hypothesis
00:38:32 7.3 The questionnaire
00:39:25 7.4 Variance and standard deviation
00:42:07 7.5 Experimental derivation of the normal distribution
00:42:35 7.6 Bivariate normal distribution
00:42:56 7.7 Correlation and regression
00:44:34 7.8 Regression to mediocrity
00:46:15 7.9 Theories of perception
00:47:03 7.10 Differential psychology
00:48:21 7.11 Composite photography
00:50:59 8 Fingerprints
00:52:48 9 Final years
00:54:04 10 Awards and influence
00:56:33 11 Major works
00:57:11 12 See also



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Sir Francis Galton, FRS (; 16 February 1822 – 17 January 1911) was an English Victorian era statistician, progressive, polymath, sociologist, psychologist, anthropologist, eugenicist, tropical explorer, geographer, inventor, meteorologist, proto-geneticist, and psychometrician. He was knighted in 1909.
Galton produced over 340 papers and books. He also created the statistical concept of correlation and widely promoted regression toward the mean. He was the first to apply statistical methods to the study of human differences and inheritance of intelligence, and introduced the use of questionnaires and surveys for collecting data on human communities, which he needed for genealogical and biographical works and for his anthropometric studies.
He was a pioneer in eugenics, coining the term itself and the phrase "nature versus nurture". His book Hereditary Genius (1869) was the first social scientific attempt to study genius and greatness.As an investigator of the human mind, he founded psychometrics (the science of measuring mental faculties) and differential psychology and the lexical hypothesis of personality. He devised a method for classifying fingerprints that proved useful in forensic science. He also conducted research on the power of prayer, concluding it had none by its null effects on the longevity of those prayed for. His quest for the scientific principles of diverse phenomena extended even to the optimal method for making tea.As the initiator of scientific meteorology, he devised the first weather map, proposed a theory of anticyclones, and was the first to establish a complete record of short-term climatic phenomena on a European scale. He also invented the Galton Whistle for testing differential hearing ability. He was Charles Darwin's half-cousin.