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Hereditary Genius: An Inquiry into Its Laws and Consequences
Are natural abilities inherited in the same way as physical features, and what should society do about it?
At a glance
- Author
- Francis Galton
Why read it
- You will weigh the claim that high reputation is a fairly accurate test of high ability
- You will see how the law of deviation from an average, built for errors and heights, was stretched to rank human ability
- You will question his view that ordinary social forces may be working to degrade or improve human nature
Who it is for
- A student of the history of ideas about intelligence
- A reader of science history examining early statistics
- A psychologist asking where nature versus nurture debates began
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