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Mistakes Concerning a Chance Encounter between Francis Galton and John Venn (2008)

Pritchard, Chris (Author)

British Society for the History of Mathematics Bulletin
Volume: 23
Pages: 103--108

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Scientific communities; interprofessional relations Probability and statistics Mathematics 19th century England Venn, John Galton, Francis Pearson, Karl

A chance encounter at Bournemouth between Francis Galton and John Venn has lain in some obscurity because of a slip by Galton himself and a second mistake by Karl Pearson. The contact with Venn provides insight into the development of Galton's perception of statistical dispersion, his disenchantment with the notion of 'probable error' and adoption of population variability.

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