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Hace 3 días · The distribution is occasionally referred to as the Galton distribution or Galton's distribution, after Francis Galton. The log-normal distribution has also been associated with other names, such as McAlister, Gibrat and Cobb–Douglas.
Hace 4 días · Los capítulos dedicados a la narración del proceso constitutivo de la disciplina -a través de la biografía intelectual de Wilhelm Wundt, William James, Francis Galton, Iván Pávlov, Sigmund Freud, Alfred Binet, etc.- alternan con la exposición de los principios y métodos cardinales de la «ciencia de la vida mental»: supuestos ...
Hace 5 días · Francis Galton, an English eugenicist, argued that genius was unevenly distributed among racial groups. Through the publication of his book Hereditary Genius in 1869, polymath Francis Galton spurred interest in the study of mental abilities, particularly as they relate to heredity and eugenics.
Hace 21 horas · While explicit links to biological racism declined as the century progressed—the name of UCL’s Galton-founded laboratory quietly swapped ‘eugenics’ for ‘genetics’ in the 1960s—universities’ intake was largely uncontested in its upholding of white, male class privilege, with less than 2 per cent of the population having passed through them (Collini, 2012: 29).
Hace 4 días · Sir Francis Galton (1822-1911) in 1840 (18 years old) “Hereditary Genius” is a seminal work that marked his era as “The Origin of Species” by his cousin Darwin. Estimates of heritability of intelligence are remarkably accurate in the light of the current studies.
Hace 21 horas · Francis Galton, an early eugenicist, coined the term itself. [need quotation to verify] Logo from the Second International Eugenics Conference, 1921, depicting eugenics as a tree which unites a variety of different fields G. K. Chesterton, an opponent of eugenics, photographed by Ernest Herbert Mills in 1909
Hace 1 día · En 1885, en Londres, Sir Francis Galton colocaba los fundamentos para la solución del problema que representaba hacer una clasificación de las impresiones dactilares mediante la publicación de su manual Fingerprint Directories.
