On 22 Oct 2002 09:19:09 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Warren) wrote: > Hello, > I've been reading a little about Fisher and the Eugenics movement. In > talking to my class about Gossett's t and Fisher's F distribution, I > presented a little bit of the controversy surrounding Fisher and > Eugenics. I assigned one of Fisher's papers in which he talks a > little about Social Darwinism. [ ... ]
As I understand from reading Stephen Jay Gould, Fisher was a founder of modern genetics. That is worth mentioning. Gould also described Fisher as (my recollection, and *my* words) a bit of a racist fool when it came to the social implications. - mention it, perhaps. It might be overdoing it, to assign old, contentious texts to young people ... non-historians who are not accustomed to translating *anything* across social periods. History: I have enjoyed reading Stigler. -- Rich Ulrich, [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pitt.edu/~wpilib/index.html . . ================================================================= Instructions for joining and leaving this list, remarks about the problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES, and archives are available at: . http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ . =================================================================
