Francis Galton
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"Sir Francis Galton", Fellow of the Royal Society/FRS was an English Victorian era/Victorian Progressivism/progressive, polymath, psychologist, Anthropology/anthropologist, Eugenics/eugenicist, tropical Exploration/explorer, geographer, Invention/inventor, Meteorology/meteorologist, proto-geneticist, Psychometrics/psychometrician, and statistician. He was knighted in 1909.

Galton produced over 340 papers and books. He also created the statistical concept of correlation and widely promoted regression toward the mean. He was the first to apply statistical methods to the study of human differences and inheritance of intelligence, and introduced the use of questionnaires and Statistical survey/surveys for collecting data on human communities, which he needed for genealogical and biographical works and for his anthropometrics/anthropometric studies.

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