The Greeks, says Mr. Galton, if they had known of the law of errors [the precision of the mean of a large number of observations], would have personified and deified it; the moderns should at least respect it as the most universal law of nature.
On the Representation of Statistics by Mathematical Formula (concluded), Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Volume XLII, 1899 (p. 552)
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