I've heard this before -- probably read it in stat
books. It isn't true. Galton worried over the
problem until he understood the statistical
mechanism. He even designed a device (the
Quincunx) to demonstrate how it works. Steve
Stigler has a section on it in his new book.
>
> Thus Galton found that the offspring of his geniuses regressed towards
> mediocrity. He apparently thought it was a law of nature rather than a
> law of statistics. If he had studied the feeble-minded we would not have
> a technique called regression analysis
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Bob Wheeler --- (Reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED])
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