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Adele Marion Fielde: Feminist, Social Activist, Scientist

Book by Leonard Warren; Routledge, 2002

Subjects:

Feminists--United States--Biography, Fielde, Adele M.--1839-1916, Suffragists--United States--Biography, Women Missionaries--China--Biography, Women Scientists--United States--Biography

Collections: History, Entire Library

...formulated and named in 1883 by Francis Galton, a cousin of Charles Darwin...considered the superior Darwin- Galton- Wedgewood and Bach families...luminaries as Frederich Nietzsche, Francis Galton, G.B. Shaw, and Herbert Spencer...
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Darwinism: Critical Reviews from Dublin Review, Edinburgh Review, Quarterly Review

Book by Alfred Russell Wallace, Thomas Henry Huxley, James Rowland Angell, J. Mark Baldwin, Francis Galton, Daniel N. Robinson; University Publications of America, 1977

Subjects:

Darwin, Charles--1809-1882, Evolution, Psychology, Comparative

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...My Life: A Record of Events and Opinions 1905 . Thomas Henry Huxley 1825-1895 Perhaps the most public and influential scientist of the age, Huxley too was largely self-educated. After some years of youthful wandering, he earned a post as Apprentice...
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The Compromised Scientist: William James in the Development of American Psychology

Book by Daniel W. Bjork; Columbia University Press, 1983

Subjects:

James, William--1842-1910, Psychologists--United States--Biography, Psychology--United States--History

Collections: Psychology, Entire Library

...worked with C harles Darwins cousin, Francis Galton, in the latters laboratory at South Kensington. Galton was a pioneer in the application of mathematics...quantification was a tool to measure intelligence. Galton, not Cattell, first used and coined...
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Everyday Irrationality: How Pseudo-Scientists, Lunatics, and the Rest of Us Systematically Fail to Think Rationally

Book by Robyn M. Dawes Ph. D.; Westview Press, 2001

Subjects:

Comparison (Psychology), Reasoning

Collections: Psychology, Entire Library

...statistician and biometrician as Francis Galton. In 1872 he published an article...respects under similar conditions. Galton, 1872, p. 126 To understand the...statistical" basis, much as Galton proposed; certainly, no one proposed...
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The Many Faces of Science: An Introduction to Scientists, Values, and Society

Book by Leslie Stevenson, Henry Byerly; Westview Press, 2000

Subjects:

Science--History, Science--Philosophy--History, Science--Social Aspects--History

Collections: History, Philosophy, Entire Library

...150 , 152 between scientists, 86 -90 Comte, Auguste...52 , 55 , 85 , 259 Francis Bacon and, 15 Galileo...Frederick, 229 Crick, Francis, 94 , 94 -97, 199...211 family of, 262 Francis Galton and, 101 Gregor Johann...

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The Donoghues of Dunno Weir

Journal article by Francis Galton; Utopian Studies, Vol. 12, 2001

Subjects:

Authors--Works, Eugenics--Analysis, Galton, Francis--Works, Manuscripts--Excerpts

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...the Bournville experiment. Galton has marked a few passages...of page 15 has a note by Galton: I have read while abroad...on eugenics (facing). Francis Galton (1822-1911) was an English scientist best known as the founder...
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The Place of Eugenics in Arnold Gesell's Maturation Theory of Child Development

Journal article by Frank J. Marchese; Canadian Psychology, Vol. 36, 1995

Subjects:

Anthropology, Child development, Eugenics, Galton, Francis, Gesell, Arnold, History, Human evolution, Psychology

Collections: Psychology, Entire Library

...provided an "irresistible criterion for any scientist who wanted to rank human groups as higher...about the necessity of race improvement as Galton himself (Freeman, 1983, p. 16...activists efforts led to the founding of the Galton Society in 1918, with Davenport as its...
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Galton's Bend: A Previously Undiscovered Nonlinearity in Galton's Family Stature Regression Data

Journal article by Amanda Wachsmuth, Leland Wilkinson, Gerard E. Dallal; The American Statistician, Vol. 57, 2003

Subjects:

Galton, Francis--Influence, Genetic research--Statistics, Regression analysis--Technique, Statisticians--Influence

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...Dallal 1. INTRODUCTION Francis Galton devised his regression...Association, 83, 596-640. Galton, F. (1869), Hereditary...Letters and Labours of Francis Galton, Vol. III: Correlation...Gerard E. Dallal is Scientist I and Chief of the Biostatistics...
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Future Human Evolution

Journal article by John Glad; Mankind Quarterly, Vol. 43, 2003

Subjects:

Biological diversity, Demographics, Evolution, Galton, Francis (1822-1911), Genetic engineering, Hominids, Human Genome Project

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...1996. Other mammals already cloned by scientists include rabbits, cows, goats, pigs...University of Massachusetts political scientists Diane Paul wrote that just fourteen...labels is once again widely accepted by scientists and the public alike.60 The bottom...
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Peirce and Bowditch: An American Contribution to Correlation and Regression

Journal article by Michael J. Rovine, Douglas R. Anderson; The American Statistician, Vol. 58, 2004

Subjects:

Bowditch, Henry Pickering--Criticism and interpretation, Correlation (Statistics), Galton, Francis--Criticism and interpretation, Peirce, Charles Sanders, Philosophers--Criticism and interpretation, Physicians--Criticism and interpretation, Statistical methods

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...spontaneity. Thus, for Peirce, the scientist must let nature speak for itself...predated the contributions of Galton and Pearson. Bowditch observed...communicated his results to Galton well before the latter presented...Source: Galton (1886a). Note: All female...

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Testing Prayer

Magazine article by E. J. Behrman; Skeptic, Vol. 11, 2005

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Galton, Francis (1822-1911), Life expectancy, Prayer, Royalty, Scientists

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...like to point out that Sir Francis Gallon devised an almost flawless experiment in 1872.1 Galton used Guys data2 on the longevity...in the Army, and Artists. Galton pointed out that the health...groups shows no differences. Galton noted another difficulty...
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The Fingerprint Controversy

Magazine article; Issues in Science and Technology, Vol. 20, Winter 2004

Subjects:

Fingerprints--Research, Galton, Francis

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...testing." But any scientist can easily see that...Additionally, most scientists will probably be shocked...dates from the work of Francis Galton, particularly in three...of present concerns, Galton also gave a detailed...different fingerprints (as Galton in fact showed). But...
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The Great Divide

Magazine article by Charles Patterson; Tikkun, Vol. 18, May/Jun 2003

Subjects:

Animals, Genocide, Holocaust, Nazi era

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...desire to improve the hereditary qualities of the human population had its beginnings in the 1860s when Francis Galton, an English scientist and cousin of Charles Darwin, turned from meteorology to the study of heredity (he coined the term...
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The Great Divide

Magazine article by Charles Patterson; Tikkun, Vol. 18, May/Jun 2003

Subjects:

Animals, Crime, Holocaust, Industry, Manufacturing, Zoology

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...desire to improve the hereditary qualities of the human population had its beginnings in the 1860s when Francis Galton, an English scientist and cousin of Charles Darwin, turned from meteorology to the study of heredity (he coined the term...
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Trading with Natural Principles

Magazine article by Hal Masover; Futures, Vol. 32, December 2003

Subjects:

Average, Investment policy, Securities markets, Securities trading, United States, Volatility

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...principle. The person credited with discovering and elaborating on this principle was Francis Galton, a 19th century British scientist and mathematician. Galton was obsessed with measuring things. In two studies he found that nature tends to revert...

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PRINT OF TRUE GENIUS; It Took Henry Faulds Years of Painstaking Research to Show How Fingerprints Could Be Used to Prove Guilt or Innocence, Yet Others Took the Credit for a Discovery Worthy of Sherlock Homes

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), November 6, 2004

Subjects:

Galton, Francis

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...passed the letter to his young scientist-cousin, Sir Francis Galton. And here the story goes murky...never received a reply from Galton - but Galton pushed the idea...planet Uranus. Herschel and Francis Galton were wealthy and well...
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Two Scientists, Different Times

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, January 16, 2005

Subjects:

Cassidy, David C., Oppenheimer, J. Robert

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

Two Scientists, Different Times. Byline...THE WASHINGTON TIMES Sir Francis Galton (1822-1911) was a one...biological researcher at the Galton Laboratory of University...Visions and Bright Ideas of Francis Galton, Bloomsbury...
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Hijacked by the Hanging Lobby

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), July 30, 2011

Subjects:

Lobbying--Political aspects

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...counted. The wisdom of crowds theory was proposed by scientist Francis Galton who attended a farmers fair in 1906 where 800 people...contest to guess the weight of an ox. After the contest Galton discovered the average guess was almost identical...
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Hijacked by the Hanging Lobby

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), July 30, 2011

Subjects:

Lobbying--Political aspects

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...counted. The wisdom of crowds theory was proposed by scientist Francis Galton who attended a farmers fair in 1906 where 800 people...contest to guess the weight of an ox. After the contest Galton discovered the average guess was almost identical...
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Hijacked by the Hanging Lobby

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), July 30, 2011

Subjects:

Lobbying--Political aspects

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...counted. The wisdom of crowds theory was proposed by scientist Francis Galton who attended a farmers fair in 1906 where 800 people...contest to guess the weight of an ox. After the contest Galton discovered the average guess was almost identical...

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Galton, Sir Francis

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

GALTON, SIR FRANCIS gol t n, 1822 1911, English scientist, founder of eugenics; cousin...eugenics (a term that he coined). Galton devised the correlation coefficient...an inherited characteristic. Galton established a system of classifying...
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Pearson, Karl

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...PEARSON, KARL 1857 1936, English scientist. He studied law, taught geometry...eugenics laboratory. A disciple of Francis Galton, he applied statistical methods...1897), and a biography of Francis Galton (3 vol., 1914 30...

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