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Karl Pearson: The Scientific Life in a Statistical Age

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Author: Theodore M. Porter
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Category: Book

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Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 352
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.1
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 6.1 x 1

ISBN: 0691126356
Dewey Decimal Number: 519.5092
EAN: 9780691126357
ASIN: 0691126356

Publication Date: December 19, 2005
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Product Description
pKarl Pearson, founder of modern statistics, came to this field by way of passionate early studies of philosophy and cultural history as well as ether physics and graphical geometry. His faith in science grew out of a deeply moral quest, reflected also in his socialism and his efforts to find a new basis for relations between men and women. This biography recounts Pearson's extraordinary intellectual adventure and sheds new light on the inner life of science./pp Theodore Porter's intensely personal portrait of Pearson extends from religious crisis and sexual tensions to metaphysical and even mathematical anxieties. Pearson sought to reconcile reason with enthusiasm and to achieve the impersonal perspective of science without sacrificing complex individuality. Even as he longed to experience nature directly and intimately, he identified science with renunciation and positivistic detachment. Porter finds a turning point in Pearson's career, where his humanistic interests gave way to statistical ones, in his iGrammar of Science/i (1892), in which he attempted to establish scientific method as the moral educational basis for a refashioned culture./pp In this original and engaging book, a leading historian of modern science investigates the interior experience of one man's scientific life while placing it in a rich tapestry of social, political, and intellectual movements./p

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1 out of 5 stars

a major figure in eugenics and "scientific racism" November 30, 2008
Nothing on this product page serves to give the reader any clue of Karl Pearson's even greater fame as a racist, promoter of eugenics, and foundational figure in what has come to be called (always with the quotes) "scientific racism." Whatever role he may have played in the development of statistics, sweeping this other aspect of Pearson under the rug constitutes far more than a simple oversight. 1-star to the author for looking the other way, and to the publisher for deceptive marketing.

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