Karl Pearson
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Karl Pearson
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Karl Pearson was an English biostatistician, eugenicist, and mathematician. He has been credited with establishing the discipline of mathematical statistics. He founded the world's first university statistics department at University College London in 1911, and contributed significantly to the field of biometrics and meteorology. Pearson was also a proponent of Social Darwinism and eugenics, and his thought is an example of what is today described as scientific racism. Pearson was a protégé and
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English eugenicist and polymath (1857–1936)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Pearson
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2003-01-03T19:21:18Z
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2024-08-29T15:27:59Z
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