A Common Family Weakness for Statistics tells the story of the assistance that George Darwin, Charles Darwin's son, gave to one of the great pioneers of statistics, Francis Galton. The seven essays describe Galton's efforts to use the normal curve to extend the theory of evolution to human intelligence. Those efforts led to the development of order statistics (including the median, quartiles and interquartile range) and the use of cumulative frequencies and the ogive. They culminate in the concepts of regression and correlation which are now so central to statistics. Galton's story has been told many times before but this is the first time that George Darwin's supporting role has been revealed.
...MoreReview Dorothy Leddy (2019) Review of "A Common Family Weakness for Statistics: Essays on Francis Galton, George Darwin and the Normal Curve of Evolutionary Biology". British Journal for the History of Mathematics (pp. 195-197).
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