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This looked ugly and so much out of place... > Or, as Pearson puts it: > From this it will be more than ever evident how little chance had to do with the resu
by galkk 7y ago
This looked ugly and so much out of place...
> Or, as Pearson puts it:
> From this it will be more than ever evident how little chance had to do with the results of the Monte Carlo roulette in July 1892.
> (Not sure why his academic paper suddenly becomes so specific; maybe he had a gambling problem on top of being a well-known racist.)
- bjoli 7y agoi found it quite funny. And I don't really find calling a well know eugenics advocate racist to be even remotely provoking. Maybe out of style compared to the rest of the text, but apart from that I didn't find it conspicuous in the least.