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bsmall2> If we plot the heights of sisters against a fixed median height interval of the brothers, the point our line goes through specifies the height of the normal sister not too tall nor too short, not too domineering nor too clinging, not too glamorous nor too homely. <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/LancelotHogben" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#LancelotHogben</a> on <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/Galton" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Galton</a> like <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/JosefBertrand" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#JosefBertrand</a> on <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/Quetelet" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Quetelet</a> <a href="https://mstdn.jp/@bsmall2" class="u-url mention">@bsmall2@mstdn.jp</a> <a href="https://fedibird.com/@bsmall2" class="u-url mention">@bsmall2@fedibird.com</a>

bs2> A view of science so conceived can readily accommodate such artefacts as the normal man and the normal environment cheek by jowl with Ricardo's economic man, the eternal verities of Malthus and such scholastic generalisations as the so-called law of supply and demand. Thus it extends the benefits of free grace.. to the newerdisciplines, which the great grammarian woos with temporary disregard for.. renunciation of the external world.. <a href="https://archive.org/details/StatisticalTheory-English-LancelotHogben" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://archive.org/details/StatisticalTheory-English-LancelotHogben</a> <a href="https://mstdn.jp/tags/LancelotHogben" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LancelotHogben</a> <a href="https://mstdn.jp/tags/StatisticalTheory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#StatisticalTheory</a>

bs2> The relevance of no branch of mathematics to one or other aspect of the contemporary world’s work is more wide open to dispute than is the theory of so-called probability. On the other hand, its unsavoury origin is on record. The first impetus came from a situation in which the dissolute nobility of France were competing in a race to ruin at the gaming tables. <a href="https://mstdn.jp/tags/Probablity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Probablity</a> <a href="https://mstdn.jp/tags/MathematicsAndProbability" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MathematicsAndProbability</a> <a href="https://mstdn.jp/tags/LancelotHogben" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LancelotHogben</a> <a href="https://mstdn.jp/tags/MathematicsForTheMillions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MathematicsForTheMillions</a>

Roman ALANUseless quote for 20 Oct:"The rules of ordinary grammar are not obvious. They have to be learned. They are not eternal truths."~ Lancelot Hogben, in "Mathematics for the Million: A Popular Self-Educator" (first published 1936; 3rd Edn: WW Norton & Co., 1966)<a href="https://mastodon.nz/tags/UselessQuote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UselessQuote</a> <a href="https://mastodon.nz/tags/LancelotHogben" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LancelotHogben</a>

bs2My feeling is that this way of seeing "computer science" as "starting to learn how to formalize intuitions about process, how to do things, starting to develop a way to talk precisely about how-to knowledge.." can connect to <a href="https://mstdn.jp/tags/LancelotHogben" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LancelotHogben</a>'s view of <a href="https://mstdn.jp/tags/Notation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Notation</a> and how important it could be for everyone to be familiar with a notation for describing processes. My guess is that process notation could settle down into some sort of <a href="https://mstdn.jp/tags/Scheme" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Scheme</a> language..

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