Emancipation through interaction – How eugenics and statistics converged and diverged

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Autor(a) principal: Louçã, Francisco
Data de Publicação: 2009
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/25980
Resumo: The paper discusses the scope and influence of eugenics in defining the scientific programme of statistics and the impact of the evolution of biology on social scientists. It argues that eugenics was instrumental in providing a bridge between sciences, and therefore created both the impulse and the institutions necessary for the birth of modern statistics in its applications first to biology and then to the social sciences. Looking at the question from the point of view of the history of statistics and the social sciences, and mostly concentrating on evidence from the British debates, the paper discusses how these disciplines became emancipated from eugenics precisely because of the inspiration of biology. It also relates how social scientists were fascinated and perplexed by the innovations taking place in statistical theory and practice.
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title Emancipation through interaction – How eugenics and statistics converged and diverged
spellingShingle Emancipation through interaction – How eugenics and statistics converged and diverged
Louçã, Francisco
Eugenics
Biometrics
Statistics
Error
Variation
title_short Emancipation through interaction – How eugenics and statistics converged and diverged
title_full Emancipation through interaction – How eugenics and statistics converged and diverged
title_fullStr Emancipation through interaction – How eugenics and statistics converged and diverged
title_full_unstemmed Emancipation through interaction – How eugenics and statistics converged and diverged
title_sort Emancipation through interaction – How eugenics and statistics converged and diverged
author Louçã, Francisco
author_facet Louçã, Francisco
author_role author
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dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Louçã, Francisco
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv Eugenics
Biometrics
Statistics
Error
Variation
topic Eugenics
Biometrics
Statistics
Error
Variation
description The paper discusses the scope and influence of eugenics in defining the scientific programme of statistics and the impact of the evolution of biology on social scientists. It argues that eugenics was instrumental in providing a bridge between sciences, and therefore created both the impulse and the institutions necessary for the birth of modern statistics in its applications first to biology and then to the social sciences. Looking at the question from the point of view of the history of statistics and the social sciences, and mostly concentrating on evidence from the British debates, the paper discusses how these disciplines became emancipated from eugenics precisely because of the inspiration of biology. It also relates how social scientists were fascinated and perplexed by the innovations taking place in statistical theory and practice.
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