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Francis Galton

Sir Francis Galton
Francis Galton 1850s.jpg
Born (1822-02-16)16 February 1822
Birmingham, West Midlands, England
Died 17 January 1911(1911-01-17) (aged 88)
Haslemere, Surrey, England
Residence England
Nationality British
Fields Anthropology, Sociology
Institutions Meteorological Council
Royal Geographical Society
Alma mater King's College London
Trinity College, Cambridge
Academic advisors William Hopkins
Notable students Karl Pearson
Known for Eugenics
Behavioural genetics
The Galton board
Regression toward the mean
Standard deviation
Weather map
Notable awards Royal Medal (1886)
Darwin–Wallace Medal (Silver, 1908)
Copley Medal (1910)

Sir Francis Galton, FRS (/ˈfrɑːnsɪs ˈɡɔːltən/; 16 February 1822 – 17 January 1911) was an English Victorian 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.


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