TEN PAST PRESIDENTS OF THE ROYAL STATISTICAL SOCIETY WERE EUGENICISTS

            

                                                     

                                                               Ronald Aylmer Fisher

                                                                 Arch-Eugenicist

                                                   The objectivity of his Statistics

                                                    is therefore, like Karl Pearson's,

                                                     currently being put to the question

                                                    around the world. For example,

                                                     his p-values are quite misleading

                                                    when trying to judge practical or

                                                    clinical significance, or when

                                                    trying to distinguish between two

                                                    populations.

                                                               NOW WIDELY DEBUNKED

                                           

The Royal Statistical Society makes all sorts of wonderful contributions 

for the betterment of the world, and all their presidents of the 21st. 

century have been superb in office,

        It is therefore very sad that ten of the Society's past presidents were 

reportedly active eugenicists for at least part of their lives, Sir Ronald Fisher 

was easily the most mendacious, since neither Francis Galton nor Karl Pearson 

became president. But Fisher escaped censure by the 2019 UCL Eugenics 

Inquiry, even though he held the second chair of eugenics at UCL. 

My full list is

                   Francis Edgeworth   (1912-14)

                   Bernard Mallet         (1916-18)

                   Udny Yule                (1924-26)

                   Major Greenwood    (1934-36)

                   William Beveridge   (1941-43)

                   David Heron             (1947-49)

                   Ronald Fisher          (1952-54)

                   Egon Pearson           (1955-57)

                   Frank Yates              (1967-68)

                  David Finney            (1973-74)

       

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     FIFTY OR MORE PRE-EMINENT STATISTICIANS WHO WERE AFFILIATED

                                WITH EUGENICS

 They include Adolphe Quetelet, who helped to found the Royal Statistical

Society in 1834,

                                                    ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

        My thanks to Scott Forster for his many contributions to the ongoing research,