On Wed, 03 Oct 2012 13:33:40 -0700, David Hogberg wrote:
There's an interesting piece in today's *Slate: *
http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2012/10/correlation_does_not_imply_causation_how_the_internet_fell_in_love_with_a_stats_class_clich_.single.html
I'm not sure I
You said: But, if the Slate author was just shooting the breeze, I guess it
don't make no nevermind what one is talking about.
I suspect it was more to reach that end than any other. I never knew,
though, that Pearson was a eugenecist.
On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 5:58 PM, Michael Palij
Pearson was a LEADING eugenicist. And, while we're at it, Pearson was such a
gigantic fan of the Germans, that he changed the spelling of his own name from
Carl to Karl. There is a very good biography of Pearson by UCLA historian of
science, Ted Porter.
Chris
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Christopher D. Green
