> The unfortunate echoes of this slant towards eugenics are heard today in the names we use for many statistical concepts, such as:<p>> Regression: What we call “linear regression” today was named for an observation that genes “regressed” to some average. It was a way of saying, “don’t mix with those people, or your children will regress and make society worse for it.”<p>> Correlation: Literally from co-relation, or how related two “desirable” traits were in a population. You might guess which traits eugenicists thought made one desirable.<p>This is another entry to go along with "The so-called normal distribution of statistics assumes that there are default humans who serve as the standard that the rest of us can be accurately measured against", isn't it? Science isn't making enough progress for people to differentiate themselves by their research, so we'll start throwing people out for not keeping up with intellectual fashions like the sociology professors do.