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Francis Galton: Measuring the immeasurable
Author(s) -
Maier Dan
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
significance
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.123
H-Index - 21
eISSN - 1740-9713
pISSN - 1740-9705
DOI - 10.1111/j.1740-9713.2011.00508.x
Subject(s) - galton's problem , subject (documents) , comedy , mathematics , mathematical economics , computer science , art , statistics , literature , library science
How many statisticians can be the subject of an hour‐long stand‐up comedy routine? Possibly only Galton. Here Dan Maier , writer and performer of the one‐man show “The stranger notions of Francis Galton”, explains why he cannot help being fascinated by the man.