PSYC 4008 Chapter : Psyc 4008 Oct 30
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By the age of 2 he could read and write and at the age of 3 he was able to do all the basic arithmetic functions. What he did was have categories of legal scholars, painters, politicians, peers, and then he looked at two physically related groups (wrestlers and oar people) Developed these categories and looked at standard reference works on science and started looking at whose names came up i. e. , looking at reference works on science. Then he tabulated how many times the person is mentioned and his notion was that the more they were mentioned, the more famous they are. In order to determine which of these people were eminent, he established a criterion that he would employ and in establishing this procedure relied on the work of adolphe jacques quetelet (1796-1874) (kwet-el-ay: belgian mathematician and statistician. 0. 05: galton did the same thing, except he used . 03% (1/4,000 people)
