Works
- Regression Towards Mediocrity in Hereditary Stature, Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, 1886
- Vox Populi, Nature, 1907
In Thinking Tools
Known for
From the heights of parents and children he found that children of unusually tall or short parents are, on average, closer to the mean, which he called regression towards mediocrity, now regression to the mean. In Vox Populi he reported that the median of some eight hundred guesses at the weight of a slaughtered and dressed ox at a Plymouth fair fell within one percent of the true weight.