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"Happy International Galton Day"

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Anonymous hbd chick said...

happy galton day to you and yours! (^_^)

2/16/13, 3:33 PM

Anonymous Portlander said...

So why is it called Gaussian Distribution? Seems Galtonian Distribution would be more apt. Did Francis coin the name as a gracious bow of respect to Carl?

2/16/13, 3:46 PM

Anonymous Anon87 said...

OT: GOP has demographic issues, but the Dems could start to have coalition issues.

Obama may find convincing African Americans that amnesty means jobs for them a tough sell

2/16/13, 3:53 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

So why is it called Gaussian Distribution?

Wikipedia is your friend

2/16/13, 5:13 PM

Anonymous Garrison Five said...

Forget selling Galton day to the Darwin groupies; instead, sell it to the statisticians and work it into the Universities that way.

2/16/13, 5:30 PM

Anonymous jody said...

steve is big on polymaths.

but what about polyglots?

2/16/13, 7:46 PM

Blogger Assistant Village Idiot said...

Anon 87

You are attempting to be reasonable. We have warned you that this will only make you unhappy in the long run. Not having jobs will make absolutely no difference in Obama's support among African-Americans.

However, any black skeptics out there might want to print up bumper stickers that say "Well, Barack Has A Job."

2/16/13, 8:08 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

http://www.theoccidentalobserver.net/2013/02/more-on-the-west-is-evil-narrative/#comments

Jewish media/academia at work.

2/16/13, 8:31 PM

Blogger bs king said...

I am truly excited to see what Hallmark will come up with for this one.

2/16/13, 8:52 PM

Anonymous Craig C. said...

" Assistant Village Idiot said...

Anon 87

You are attempting to be reasonable. We have warned you that this will only make you unhappy in the long run. Not having jobs will make absolutely no difference in Obama's support among African-Americans.

However, any black skeptics out there might want to print up bumper stickers that say "Well, Barack Has A Job.""


-Good point. However, while it may not matter to them, it will matter to us. 'Idle hands are the devil's work', especially if they are African American hands- black youths without jobs tend to get into gangs, drug dealing, violence, robbery, etc. If there is an uptick in black unemployment, expect an uptick in black crime as well.

2/17/13, 6:20 AM

Anonymous Anon87 said...

I was thinking more along the lines of the Democratic party and it's various constituents. It's still mostly a white man's Congress, but the Dems are becoming more diverse. Nationally they can rally around a candidate to hand out the federal goodies (for now), but at the smaller, local level it will be a female vs. black vs. hispanic vs. gay vs. combination candidate for the Democrats. And that could get ugly and divisive.

While smaller than it used to be, if the GOP can rally the mostly white base, a unified local electorate could clean up. Still may have to concede the White House though. The media can always rally around a single Deomcratic candidate, but they don't have the attention span for all the local elections.

2/17/13, 9:20 AM

Anonymous JeremiahJohnbalaya said...

Allow me to at least give lip service to the bad side of statistics. In particular, the dubious (pernicious?) use of statistics to promote truth, as some kind of natural and physical laws.

Here'a really simple example in the political realm, which Obama used more or less verbatim in his SOTU address. The numbers(***) there are almost certainly correlation and not causation, but it is obviously depicted as the latter.

(*** good luck tracing those number back to a source, btw. You can start here)

And don't get me started on "climate science."

2/17/13, 2:07 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Compared with Charles: Birthday difference of 4 days, albeit 13 yrs. apart, both were bored with medical education, both took the normal degree at Cambridge instead of trying for honors, both interested in biology, both went on long trips to the Southern Hemisphere. Curious why Galton didn't show more productivity until older, I read he was a child prodigy like J.S. Mill, both were reading texts in Ancient Greek and Latin at the age where most kids are just learning the basics in their native tongue. Like Mill, Galton also suffered a nervous breakdown in early adulthood. You would think things like the weather map and fingerprint analysis would endear him the modern intellectual, but no one today talks about him about him because Eugenics is considered to be anti-egalitarian and therefore can't be forgiven.

2/17/13, 7:16 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Happy International Galton Day! The probability that I am always a day late and a dollar short on these things is pretty high.

Hum, Happy Galton Day doesn't exactly trip off the tongue. Perhaps it's worth stealing a march on the HHolidayers and introducing a standard greeting, say, "Happy Galton!". Maybe "Have a Galton Day!" Or maybe "G*&^%n, that was a bad movie! My expectations were ruined!"

2/17/13, 7:18 PM

Blogger Glaivester said...

I will celebrate just by posting a message, any message. My icon is celebration of the man enough.

2/17/13, 7:33 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

I feel much dumber having read this. So many questions. I don,t speak that language.

3/11/13, 1:02 PM

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