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Galton: Founder of Eugenics & Statistics

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bit.ly/dsia05b Part B of Lec 5 Descriptive Statistics: An Islamic Approach. Describes the racist ideas of Sr Francis Galton, and how the attempt to verify and validate them led to the creation of the statistical tools/methods of correlation. These methods are deeply flawed, as later lectures will show, because they can be used to prove ...

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bit.ly/dsia05b Part B of Lec 5 Descriptive Statistics: An Islamic Approach. Describes the racist ideas of Sr Francis Galton, and how the attempt to verify and validate them led to the creation of the statistical tools/methods of correlation. These methods are deeply flawed, as later lectures will show, because they can be used to prove any thesis desired by the statistician.


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