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Darwin's cousin, Francis Galton, for whom the log-normal distribution is often called the Galton distribution, was among the first to investigate psychometrics.
by fsckboy 1y ago
Darwin's cousin, Francis Galton, for whom the log-normal distribution is often called the Galton distribution, was among the first to investigate psychometrics.
not realizing he was hundreds of years late to the game, he still went ahead and coined the term "median"
more tidbits here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Galton#Statistical_innovation_and_psychological_theory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Galton#Statistical_inn...