A quincunx, but it is now known as the Galton board. From Wordnik.com. [WN.com - Financial News] Reference
Galton estimates two hundred and fifty in a million as in the. From Wordnik.com. [The Family and it's Members] Reference
These principles are embodied in the Franklin and Galton grates. From Wordnik.com. [The Home Medical Library, Volume V (of VI)] Reference
Lord Fortescue, and introduced Captain Galton, the new President. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 358, November 11, 1882] Reference
The surprise: everybody liked the villain, including Galton himself. From Wordnik.com. [READING FACES] Reference
Galton compares parent and child to successive pendants on the same chain. From Wordnik.com. [Are the Effects of Use and Disuse Inherited? An Examination of the View Held by Spencer and Darwin] Reference
What is most striking about Galton is not his affluence but his stupidity. From Wordnik.com. [Dan Agin: Black and White in America II: The Phantom of Group Differences] Reference
Galton himself acknowledges marriage as a prerequisite in eugenics by saying. From Wordnik.com. [Society Its Origin and Development] Reference
The example he used was an observation that Galton made of a hog competition. From Wordnik.com. [The Wisdom of Crowds?, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference
They used ideas of Darwin, Galton, and Mendel to advance their racist agenda. From Wordnik.com. [Continued: Eugenics Thread] Reference
The quote you like starts with his hat-tip to Greg and Galton (as well as Wallace). From Wordnik.com. [Cue outrage in three, two, one…] Reference
I was excessively pleased at your review of Galton, and I agree to every word of it. From Wordnik.com. [Alfred Russel Wallace: Letters and Reminiscences, Vol. 1] Reference
Of course not; this is exactly what Galton and Darwin lamented in the upper classes. From Wordnik.com. [Cue outrage in three, two, one…] Reference
Also, by the way, did you know that Sir Francis Galton invented the silent dogwhistle?. From Wordnik.com. [Liberals Doing What Liberals Do Best–Crying “Racism!” At The Clintons] Reference
That's what Galton invented it to be, and that is precisely the science used to justify. From Wordnik.com. [Darwin Strips Reality of Purpose?] Reference
Is anyone reminded of an anecdote about Francis Galton, or is Murray deliberately imitating Galton?. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Yglesias » Charles Murray Sees Nonwhite People] Reference
Eugenics (the name means "good in birth") originated with an English statistician named Francis Galton. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-03-04] Reference
Galton in the late 19th century, the focus at that time not on genes (not known to Galton) but on heredity. From Wordnik.com. [Dan Agin: Your Genes Made You Do It? Guilt, Innocence, and Behavioral Genetics] Reference
It also goes to evidence in Darwin's writing which I was alluding to when I asked about Haeckel and Galton. From Wordnik.com. [Cue outrage in three, two, one…] Reference
Nothing here whatsoever to rebut the claims of Greg (or Galton), which he quotes in support of his own case. From Wordnik.com. [Cue outrage in three, two, one…] Reference
I remember reading once a paper by the late Professor Galton on the possibility of communication between the planets. From Wordnik.com. [First Men in the Moon] Reference
Volunteer Galton Boudreaux of Oak Grove stirs shrimp with a shovel during a celebration and shrimp boil in Cameron, La. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-10-01] Reference
Darwinsim will go the way of the theories of Galton and de Lapouge though not without the fight any established Myth does. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Freedom is not Enough: The Moynihan Report and America’s Struggle over Black Family Life–from LBJ to Obama] Reference
Galton has shown, eminent men were killed or driven out during the period of religious persecution in Spain, France and Italy. From Wordnik.com. [Popular Science Monthly Oct, Nov, Dec, 1915 — Volume 86] Reference
Yes, Darwin himself did not take these such steps, but Galton and Haeckel, his contemporaries, saw where this was going and did. From Wordnik.com. [Eric Michael Johnson: Intelligent Design Creationists Abuse Science and Victims of the Holocaust] Reference
The Darwin family maintained leadership of the British Eugenics Society through 1989, when it re-named itself the Galton Institute. From Wordnik.com. [A Review of Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed] Reference
Galton (1822-1911) used to walk through London making pseudo-statistical observations about the members of the populace he passed by. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Yglesias » Charles Murray Sees Nonwhite People] Reference
Galton and Professor Karl Pearson in their researches into men's physical and intellectual qualities in the light of Darwin's theory of. From Wordnik.com. [Notes on Islam] Reference
Migration Watch has been unimpeachably respectable and with his connection to the Galton Institute Professor Coleman has made a mistake. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-03-04] Reference
As he moves to examining the case of the development, advantage and heritability of the intellect he again devotes much space to Galton. From Wordnik.com. [Cue outrage in three, two, one…] Reference
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