Classification of Men According to Their Natural Gifts

Tipo de publicación (Type of publication): Artículo (Article)
Autor (Author): Galton, Francis
Título traducido (Translated Title): N.E (N.S)

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Classification of men according to their natural gifts, 1869. Readings in the history of psychology.
Galton, Francis
Dennis, Wayne (Ed). (1948). Readings in the history of psychology. Century psychology series. (pp. 231-247). East Norwalk, CT, US: Appleton-Century-Crofts. xi, 587 pp.
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This is Chapter 3 of Hereditary Genius: An Inquiry into its Laws and Consequences, published in 1869. The text is taken from the American edition published by D. Appleton & Co. in 1870. Galton proposes that mental ability is distributed in the manner which is characteristic of physical traits. The range of mental power between--I will not say the highest Caucasian and the lowest savage--but between the greatest and least of English intellects, is enormous. There is a continuity of natural ability reaching from one knows not what height, and descending to one can hardly say what depth. I propose in this chapter to range men according to their natural abilities, putting them into classes separated by equal degrees of merit, and to show the relative number of individuals included in the several classes. Perhaps some persons might be inclined to make an offhand guess that the number of men included in the several classes would be pretty equal. If he thinks so, I can assure him he is most egregiously mistaken. The method I shall employ for discovering all this, is an application of the very curious theoretical law of "deviation from an average." First, I will explain the law, and then I will show that the production of natural intellectual gifts comes justly within its scope. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2009 APA, all rights reserved)

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