The History of Statistics and Eugenics at UCL with Professor Tom Fearn

UCL Minds

In this contributed series from the Department of Statistical Science at UCL, we speak with Professor Tom Fearn about how UCL is acknowledging and addressing its historical links with the eugenics movement, and in particular the roles of the prominent statisticians and eugenicists Francis Galton and Karl Pearson. For more information and to access the transcript: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/statistics/transcript-episode-1