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Francis Galton : Statistical Inquiries Into The Efficacy Of Prayer, Written In 1
Contains selected writings ( Statistical inquiries into the efficacy of prayer , On visualising a million ), biography, and list of publications.
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Extractions: AN eminent authority has recently published a challenge to test the efficacy of prayer by actual experiment. I have been induced, through reading this, to prepare the following memoir for publication nearly the whole of which I wrote and laid by many years ago, after completing a large collection of data, which I had undertaken for the satisfaction of my own conscience. The efficacy of prayer seems to me a simple, as it is a perfectly appropriate and legitimate subject of scientific inquiry. Whether prayer is efficacious or not, in any given sense, is a matter of fact on which each man must form an opinion for himself. His decision will lie based upon data more or less justly handled, according to his education and habits. An unscientific reasoner will be guided by a confused recollection of crude experience. A scientific reasoner will scrutinise each separate experience before he admits it as evidence, and will compare all the cases he has selected on a methodical system. The phrases of our Church service amply countenance this view; and if we look to the practice or the opposed sections of the religious world, we find them consistent in maintaining it. The so-called "Low Church" notoriously places absolute belief in special providences accorded to pious prayer. This is testified by the biographies of its members, the journals of its missionaries, and the united prayer-meetings" of the present day. The Roman Catholics offer religious vows to avert danger; they make pilgrimages to shrines; they hang votive offerings and pictorial representations
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Encyclopedia article provides a short introduction to galton's life and work.
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Biography of francis galton (18221911) francis galton. Born 16 Feb 1822 in Sparkbrook (near Birmingham), England
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Extractions: An explorer and anthropologist, Francis Galton is known for his pioneering studies of human intelligence. He devoted the latter part of his life to eugenics, i.e. improving the physical and mental makeup of the human species by selected parenthood. Although weak in mathematics his ideas strongly influenced the development of statistics particularly his proof that a normal mixture of normal distributions is itself normal. Another of his major findings was reversion. This was his formulation of regression and its link to the bivariate normal distribution. He also made important contributions to the fields of meteorology, anthropometry, and physical anthropology. Galton was an indefatigable explorer and an investigator of human intelligence. Galton, the cousin of Charles Darwin, was convinced that pre-eminence in various fields was due almost entirely to hereditary factors. He opposed those who claimed intelligence or character were determined by environmental factors. He inquired into racial differences, something almost unacceptable today, and was one of the first to employ questionnaire and survey methods, which he used to investigate mental imagery in different groups of people.
Fighting For The Good Cause: Reflections On Francis Galtons Legacy To American
galton, francis. (1852) Recent expedition into the interior of SouthWestern Africa. galton,francis (1853) Narrative of an explorer in tropical South Africa.
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Extractions: October 2002 Books, or even booklets, on the Victorian polymath Francis Galton dont come out very often. Nicholas Gillham produced only the third full-length biography in English, in November of 2001 [Gillham 2001], 25 years or so after the last one by Derrick Forrest [Forrest 1974]. Before that you have to go back to Karl Pearsons magisterial three volume The Life, Letters and Labours of Francis Galton [Pearson 1914, 1924, 1930]. So, in a sense, one should be grateful that some attention is being paid to Galton. Unfortunately Sweeney has a thoroughly political agenda. Like postmodernist literary criticism, the result is an unintentionally ironical incarnation of all the faults attributed to the subject. Postmodernists complain about the prison house of language, but their own prose is impenetrable and might easily be mistaken for nonsense. Though Sweeney expends chapters on the supposed political nature of Galtons work on mental ability and heredity, the political agenda is transparently all his own. The principal fault he attributes to Galton carelessness bordering on fraud is on full display in his own work. Where his argument contains substantial points, elementary cross-checking refutes them. The argument is not nuanced: that Galton failed abjectly to demonstrate that ability is hereditary; that his interest in heredity was driven by ideology and the expectations of his family that he himself should become a genius like his grandfather Erasmus Darwin; and that American psychologists were politically predisposed to believe a transparently weak argument. Others might prefer the simpler explanation: that Galton was unusually gifted; that he was persuaded by the evidence gathered by his own pioneering research programme; and that American psychologists were influenced by his example because it opened genuinely fruitful areas of inquiry.
Sir Francis Galton (1822-1911)
man of measurement, of "anything and everything" was Sir francis galton. Overshadowed in popular accounts by his cousin
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img6048 picture, galton, francis Birmingham, England 16.02.1822 Haslemere, England17.01.1911. Selected works galton, francis. 1877. Typical laws of heredity.
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Extractions: Degrees: B.A., Cambridge University, 1844 Career: Studies of medicine at London; 1844 study trip through Europe and Africa; 1857 private scholar in London; no academic or official positions; 1882 laboratory in London established which was the first mental test center in the world; 1901 foundation of the journal Biometrika with Pearson and W. F. R. Weldon; 1909 knighted. Selected works: - Galton, Francis. 1877. Typical laws of heredity. Nature 15: 492-495, 512 ff, 532 f
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Galton, Francis: English Men Of Science (1874)
galton, francis English Men of Science (1874), university press books, shoppingcart, new release notification. galton, francis English Men of Science (1874).
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Extractions: Galton, Francis English Men of Science (1874) . Edited by Robert H. Wozniak. Distributed for the Thoemmes Press. 288 p. 1998 Series: (T-CP) Thoemmes Press - Classics in Psychology Cloth CUSA $90.00tx 1-85506-663-7 Introduced 'nature/nurture' terminology and the questionnaire method into psychology. Gathering questionnaire data on racial, religious, social, physical, and psychological characteristics from nearly 200 Fellows of the Royal Society, Galton demonstrated the potential value of statistical analysis in evaluating the relative contributions of heredity and environment to individual differences. Subjects: The University of Chicago Press You may purchase this title at these fine bookstores . Outside the USA, consult our international information page File last modified on 3/10/2003. See also: Questions about this title? email
Galton, Francis: Inquiries Into Human Faculty And Its Development (1883)
galton, francis Inquiries into Human Faculty and Its Development (1883), universitypress books, shopping cart, new release notification.
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Extractions: Galton, Francis Inquiries into Human Faculty and Its Development (1883) . Edited by Robert H. Wozniak. Distributed for the Thoemmes Press. 405 p. 1998 Series: (T-CP) Thoemmes Press - Classics in Psychology Cloth CUSA $100.00tx 1-85506-671-8 The first systematic, scientific treatise on individual differences in psychological phenomena. Galton's work marked the beginning of the scientific study of imagery and the association of ideas. Here for the first time he sketched out the essentials of a theory of mental testing. Subjects: The University of Chicago Press You may purchase this title at these fine bookstores . Outside the USA, consult our international information page File last modified on 3/10/2003. See also: Questions about this title? email sales@press.uchicago.edu Email questions about books or availability to sales@press.uchicago.edu
Galton, Francis (1822-1911)
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Extractions: English statistician and meteorologist who, in a letter to the London Times , on August 6, 1892, proposed using a combination of mirrors to reflect sunlight toward Mars in order that it might be detected by any Martian astronomers with the aid of telescopes. This was similar to an earlier idea put forward by Cros in France. It stimulated a lively debate in England on (a) the likelihood of there being intelligent life on Mars and other neighboring worlds (including the Moon), and (b) the merits of trying to send signals. One of those who opposed the scheme was Richard Hutton. See communication, with the Moon and planets
Francis Galton - Genie Der Vielseitigkeit
Translate this page Gregor Brand ?The most original-minded man francis galton (1822 - 1911)I. francis galton - Genie der Vielseitigkeit. francis galton wurde am 16.
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Brewer, E. Cobham. Dictionary Of Phrase & Fable. Galton, Francis, F.R.S.
Reference Brewers Dictionary Bibliographical Appendix galton, francis,FRS. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898. galton, francis, FRS. (b. 1822).
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HUM-MOLGEN: Galton, Francis. 1898. A Diagram Of Heredity. Nature, 57:293.
Author, Topic galton, francis. 1898. A Diagram of Heredity. Nature, 57293.Admin5 unregistered, posted 1022-1999 0201 PM Edit/Delete Message
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Extractions: home genetic news bioinformatics biotechnology ... register for news alert Galton, Francis. 1898. A Diagram of Heredity. Nature, 57:293. October, 22 1999 12:01 The online version is available at http://www.esp.org/foundations/genetics/classical/fg-98.pdf as part of the Electronic Scholarly Publishing project. The ESP site ( http://www.esp.org/ ) is dedicated to the electronic publishing of scientific and other scholarly materials. Of particular interest are the history of science, genetics, computational biology, and genome research.
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Extractions: text only Title Sir Francis Galton, F.R.S. 1822-1911 Description This Web site is dedicated to the scientist, eugenicist, hereditician, criminologist and explorer, Sir Francis Galton. The site is rich in the full-text of Galton's original writings in his various fields of endeavour. These writings include journal articles and books, including Galton's autobiography Memories of my life (London: Methuen, 1908) and Karl Pearson's three volume biography of Galton, The life, letters and labours of Francis Galton (Cambridge University Press, 1914-1930). Other full-text books of note include Hereditary genius (London: Macmillan, 1892), Inquiries into human faculty (London: Dent, 1907) and Natural inheritance (London: Macmillan, 1889). There is also a selection of his correspondence with Darwin, and letters to newspapers. Publications are in Adobe PDF format; to view them it is necessary to have Adobe Acrobat Reader installed. The site also contains a bibliography of Galton's works and general biographical material about Galton, including a timeline. The site's editor is a proponent of Galton's views and makes no secret of his agreement with the principles of eugenics. Keywords Psychology Eugenics Books Biography [Publication Type] ... Anthropology Personal name Galton, Francis Sir 1822-1911
Galton, Francis
galton, francis (18221911). English scientist, inventor, and explorerwho studied the inheritance of physical and mental attributes
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Extractions: English scientist, inventor, and explorer who studied the inheritance of physical and mental attributes with the aim of improving the human species. He was the first to use twins to try to assess the influence of environment on development, and is considered the founder of eugenics (a term he coined). Galton believed that genius was inherited, and was principally to be found in the British; he also attempted to compile a map of human physical beauty in Britain. He invented the `silent' dog whistle, the weather map, a teletype printer, and forensic fingerprinting, and discovered the existence of anticyclones. In Hereditary Genius 1869, based on a study of mental abilities in eminent families, Galton formulated the regression law, which states that parents who deviate from the average in a positive or negative direction have children who, on average, also deviate in the same direction but to a lesser extent.
GALTON, FRANCIS (1822-1911)
galton, francis (18221911). Psykologin påverkades också av Darwins Arternasuppkomst. Sir francis galton hade en evolutionistisk syn på psykologin.
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click on Refs above. francis galton, 18221911. Traveller , statisticianand scientific writer . CD's cousin. Explored in south
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