Francis Galton / 弗朗西斯·高尔顿

Francis Galton / 弗朗西斯·高尔顿 is the nineteenth-century British polymath introduced in 37.智商测试：请问你是智力婆罗门吗？ as a crucial origin figure for modern intelligence testing and eugenic governance. The episode connects him to statistics, regression, fingerprinting, anthropometry, the invention of the term “eugenics,” and a deep belief that ability, character, class position, and racial hierarchy could be read through heredity.

The source keeps Galton double-edged. It acknowledges real measurement talent and statistical influence, but treats his project as a warning about scientific method mixed with social prejudice. His fascination with bodies, families, scores, and distributions helped make psychometric social sorting imaginable as public policy.

Connections

• 37.智商测试：请问你是智力婆罗门吗？ - source episode.
• Charles Darwin / 查尔斯·达尔文 - cousin and evolutionary influence, while the source distinguishes Darwin from later Social Darwinism / 社会达尔文主义.
• Eugenic Governance / 优生学治理, Psychometric Social Sorting / 心理测量式社会分层, and Intelligence Testing / 智力测试 - concepts developed through his role.
• Scientific Self-Correction and Science Optimism And Pseudoscience - adjacent wiki frames for separating evidence discipline from overconfident harmful systems.