# Francis Galton
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Sir francis galton, FRS (; 16 February 1822 – 17 January 1911), was an English Victorian era polymath: a statistician, sociologist, psychologist, anthropologist, tropical explorer, geographer, inventor, meteorologist, proto-geneticist, psychometrician and a proponent of social Darwinism, eugenics and scientific racism. He was knighted in 1909.
Galton produced over 340 papers and books.
Eugenics, Part 1: The Fear of Human Decline
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Part Two: Francis Galton: Inventor of Eugenics
In part 2, we follow Galton during his youthful rampage through the middle east and then Africa, and how his 'gap years' created the racism we all live with today.
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Eugenics, Part 2: The Promise of Human Betterment
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Part Three: Francis Galton: Inventor of Eugenics
Robert explains how Francis Galton helped invent modern forensic science while looking for ways to be more racist, as well as continuing his weird fetish of 'measuring' attractive women.
Sources:
https://www.historyofdatascience.com/francis-galton-the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly-of-19th-century-…
Part Four: Francis Galton: Inventor of Eugenics
We conclude the story of Francis Galton and explore all the hideous ways his ideas helped inspire eugenic laws around the world, and ultimately the Holocaust.
Sources:
https://www.historyofdatascience.com/francis-galton-the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly-of-19th-century-science/
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