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Resources for learning about the history of statistics and statisticians. By statisticians, for statisticians.
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Fredrick Ludwig Hoffman #18

Closed MilesOtt closed 4 years ago

MilesOtt commented 4 years ago

Former ASA president (1911) and VP of Prudential and author of "Race Traits and Tendencies of the American Negro"

https://archive.org/details/racetraitstenden00hoff/page/n6/mode/2up

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Ludwig_Hoffman

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1497788/

Written by his grandson (!) in amstat news blog: https://magazine.amstat.org/blog/2018/10/29/sih-hoffman/

More on Hoffman here: https://www.pbs.org/race/000_About/002_04-background-01-05.htm

nicholasjhorton commented 4 years ago

Yipes.

sctyner commented 4 years ago

Just heard about him in an interview with Ibram X. Kendi. Kendi's piece: https://amp.theatlantic.com/amp/article/612457/

sctyner commented 4 years ago

Reflected in the new statistics for evil page