PSYC 4008 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Warini, Senescence, Memu
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Sir francis galton (1822-1911: charles darwin"s first cousin, privileged, very smart. Set about tabulating imminence: he was always dedicated to the use of quantification. Maybe you can count : in doing that came up with quantitative way of defining imminence, he cited the influence of the belgium aldolphe quetelet. Known for being the first to show you can apply gaming theory to human beings. Gaming theory was a branch of math that dealt with probability distributions. Gaming theory was the probability of something occurring. Quetelet was the first person to show that human behavior follows some of these distributions: average and even distribution on the sides of the average, was very influential on galton. Distribution of heights of soldiers. (galton"s work: galton"s law of deviation of an average, cited quetelet"s work, advanced statistics, galton started looking at immanent individuals in different categories.
