K. Pearson to F. Galton, 26th Dec. 1901.- External URL
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Sent From (Definite): Karl PearsonSent To (Definite): Sir Francis GaltonDate: 26 Dec 1901
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Sent fromKarl Pearson
26 Dec 1901
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‘My dear Mr Galton,
I have been intending for some days to send you a line of sympathy on being laid up, but I wanted to enclose a New Year’s Greeting from the workers in my statistical laboratory, and I could not get it finished until this morning. I have always felt we must go into the point more fully, since you laid stress on the view that ability was correlated with the size of the head in your criticism of Miss Lee’s paper. There is still a chance that extreme genius may exhibit something abnormal in the size of head, but I think it is now pretty clear if we are to look upon ability as normally distributed in the population, there is only a very small, practically negligible, correlation between it and either the size or shape of the head. We propose next to find our whether there is a higher relationship between ability and health, strength & general physique, and then to test its relation to temper & moral characters, from the school data papers.
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Sent toSir Francis Galton
26 Dec 1901
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‘My dear Mr Galton,
I have been intending for some days to send you a line of sympathy on being laid up, but I wanted to enclose a New Year’s Greeting from the workers in my statistical laboratory, and I could not get it finished until this morning. I have always felt we must go into the point more fully, since you laid stress on the view that ability was correlated with the size of the head in your criticism of Miss Lee’s paper. There is still a chance that extreme genius may exhibit something abnormal in the size of head, but I think it is now pretty clear if we are to look upon ability as normally distributed in the population, there is only a very small, practically negligible, correlation between it and either the size or shape of the head. We propose next to find our whether there is a higher relationship between ability and health, strength & general physique, and then to test its relation to temper & moral characters, from the school data papers.
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