Aubrey Clayton is a mathematician who teaches courses in the philosophy of probability and statistics at the Harvard Extension School, and the author of Bernoulli’s Fallacy: Statistical Illogic and the Crisis of Modern Science (2021). He holds a PhD from the University of California, Berkeley. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, Nautilus, and The Boston Globe.
Aubrey Clayton
Articles
The “Correlation” Between Statistics and Eugenics
In the second essay of the Legacies of Eugenics series, Aubrey Clayton excavates the troubling correlation between the birth of statistical methods and the history of eugenics.
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