Francis Galton Simulacrum
Correlation
19th-20th century
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The method is: collect the measurements, find the statistical pattern, and that pattern reveals nature's structure. Applied to weather, it produced the anticyclone. Applied to fingerprints, it produced forensic identification. Applied to human heredity, it produced eugenics. The method is the same in all three cases. What does your method reveal about what happens when good method is pointed at the wrong object?
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- Correlation
- Regression
- Eugenics
- Fingerprints
- The Polymath and His Catastrophic Application
Others in Critics & Dissenters from Within
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