Talk:Gaussian distribution

Some things that need to be covered in this

So in the article lead, there is the line "At the same time, it is often misinterpreted and misused, especially by racialists." It will be important to cover Adolphe Quetelet, since he was responsible for encouraging assumptions that human traits should be expected to follow a normal distribution and he was quite obsessive about measuring human traits trying to prove this. These notions would be influential on the eugenics movement. But I am not sure where to fit this in the article quite yet, so I am talking about it here. This link might be useful https://eugenicsarchive.ca/discover/tree/5233cb0f5c2ec5000000009c Vomitorium (talk) 23:50, 21 February 2022 (UTC)

One other thing, if we need to mention g anywhere in the discussion of IQ testing (i.e. the assumption that intellectual abilities of all sorts can more or less be boiled down to a single value without sacrificing too much useful information), some useful references might be https://www.researchgate.net/publication/275659645_The_g-Factor and https://www.jstor.org/stable/1412107?seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents Vomitorium (talk) 19:20, 17 March 2022 (UTC)

Can this go to mainspace now?

The article isn't finished yet, but it seems substantive enough to go in main? Can someone move it if they agree? Vomitorium (talk) 23:51, 17 March 2022 (UTC)