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Francis Galton

    16 februari 1822 – 17 januari 1911

    Sir Francis Galton was een baanbrekende Victoriaanse polyhistor wiens werk zich uitstrekte van antropologie tot meteorologie, met een focus op statistiek. Hij revolutioneerde de studie van menselijke verschillen en intelligentie door statistische methoden toe te passen, en introduceerde fundamentele concepten zoals correlatie en regressie naar het gemiddelde. Galton bedacht ook de termen 'eugenetica' en 'nature versus nurture', wat discussies over erfelijkheid en menselijk potentieel diepgaand beïnvloedde. Zijn innovatieve onderzoek omvatte psychometrie, de wetenschap van mentale meting, en zelfs forensische wetenschap met zijn vingerafdrukclassificatiesysteem.

    Bericht eines Forschers im tropischen Südafrika
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