F. Galton to K. Pearson, 16th March 1903.- External URL
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Sent From (Definite): Sir Francis GaltonSent To (Definite): Karl PearsonDate: 16 Mar 1903
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Sent fromSir Francis Galton
16 Mar 1903
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‘... [Biometrika] seems to me to want some cheery writing in good reviews, to show in an intelligible form, a few definite blunders into which biologists have fallen for want of biometric methods. I expect that craniology would furnish topics. I recollect once, that kindest of men, Sir Wm. Flower, being on the verge of wrath because I pointed out the insufficiency of evidence drawn from mean values of a few skulls of some savage race (I forget which) in determining the race to which a particular unknown skull belonged. Craniological literature would contain, I shd. think, many such statements which cd. assaulted[?] triumphantly by a facile writer & sharp critic. But the writer would have to be coached sufficiently for the purpose...
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Sent toKarl Pearson
16 Mar 1903
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‘... [Biometrika] seems to me to want some cheery writing in good reviews, to show in an intelligible form, a few definite blunders into which biologists have fallen for want of biometric methods. I expect that craniology would furnish topics. I recollect once, that kindest of men, Sir Wm. Flower, being on the verge of wrath because I pointed out the insufficiency of evidence drawn from mean values of a few skulls of some savage race (I forget which) in determining the race to which a particular unknown skull belonged. Craniological literature would contain, I shd. think, many such statements which cd. assaulted[?] triumphantly by a facile writer & sharp critic. But the writer would have to be coached sufficiently for the purpose...
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