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Criminal statistics
In: DHEW publication
In: HSM 72-9094
In: Crime and delinquency topics
In: a monograph series
Pictorial Statistics
In: History of political economy, Band 53, Heft S1, S. 207-226
ISSN: 1527-1919
This essay discusses Francis Galton's method of inductive inference where the data are photographs of human faces. His aim of induction was to determine the typical characteristics of the natural class to which the individuals belong by composing the relevant photographs in a specific photographic way. The three populations studied by Galton were people suffering tuberculosis, Jews, and criminals. This essay argues that despite the fact that Galton aimed at mechanical objectivity, subjective judgements nevertheless appear to be a necessary part of this kind of inductive inference. At first sight, this seems very much in the line of Lorraine Das-ton and Peter Galison's account of objectivity. They argue that in the twentieth century the awareness arose that mechanical-objective pictures still could contain errors that should be erased by trained judgement. Gal-ton's case of inductive reasoning, however, departs from this account by showing that the correct composites were achieved by a combination of mechanical procedures and untrained judgements. To arrive at the typical characterizations one first has to familiarize oneself with the data, but the familiarization should be done by someone who is not an expert on the cases under study.
Descriptive Statistics
In: Translating Statistics to Make Decisions, S. 75-102
Applied Statistics
In: International journal of forecasting, Band 10, Heft 4, S. 650
ISSN: 0169-2070
Statistics in Linguistics
In: Annual review of anthropology, Band 20, Heft 1, S. 377-393
ISSN: 1545-4290
Historical Statistics
In: Latin American research review, Band 13, Heft 2, S. 69-69
ISSN: 1542-4278
Statistics: wages
In: The current digest of the Soviet press: publ. each week by The Joint Committee on Slavic Studies, Band 26, S. 9-10
ISSN: 0011-3425
Underdeveloped Statistics
In: Economic Development and Cultural Change, Band 11, Heft 3, Part 1, S. 315-317
ISSN: 1539-2988