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Historical Spotlight: Eugenics – journey to the dark side at the dawn of statistics

April 27 marks the 80th anniversary of the death of Karl Pearson, who contributed to statistics the correlation coefficient, principal components, the (increasingly-maligned) p-value, and much more. Pearson was one of a trio of founding fathers of modern statistics, the others being Francis Galton and Ronald Fisher.  Galton, Pearson and Fischer were deeply involved withContinue reading “Historical Spotlight: Eugenics – journey to the dark side at the dawn of statistics”