{"id":1160,"date":"2021-09-07T15:05:56","date_gmt":"2021-09-07T15:05:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/teachpsychscience.org\/?p=1160"},"modified":"2021-09-07T15:05:57","modified_gmt":"2021-09-07T15:05:57","slug":"statistics-murky-ethical-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teachpsychscience.org\/index.php\/statistics-murky-ethical-history\/1160\/statistics\/","title":{"rendered":"Statistics&#8217; Murky Ethical History"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"193\" height=\"262\" src=\"https:\/\/teachpsychscience.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/galton.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1161\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>A look back into the historical origins of statistics reveals surprising links to Nazis and eugenics. Check out Aubrey Clayton&#8217;s article  &#8220;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/nautil.us\/issue\/92\/frontiers\/how-eugenics-shaped-statistics\" target=\"_blank\">How Eugenics Shaped Statistics<\/a>&#8220;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s an interesting look at statistics&#8217; historical roots and how it&#8217;s tied to modern controversies &#8220;It\u2019s no coincidence that the method of significance testing and the reputations of the people who invented it are crumbling simultaneously.\u00a0&#8220;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A look back into the historical origins of statistics reveals surprising links to Nazis and eugenics. Check out Aubrey Clayton&#8217;s article &#8220;How Eugenics Shaped Statistics&#8220; It&#8217;s an interesting look at statistics&#8217; historical roots and how it&#8217;s tied to modern controversies &#8220;It\u2019s no coincidence that the method of significance testing and the reputations of the people [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,16,4],"tags":[78,260,261],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teachpsychscience.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1160"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teachpsychscience.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teachpsychscience.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teachpsychscience.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teachpsychscience.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1160"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/teachpsychscience.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1208,"href":"https:\/\/teachpsychscience.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1160\/revisions\/1208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teachpsychscience.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teachpsychscience.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teachpsychscience.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}