Sir Francis Galton coined the term “regression to the mean” — or “regression towards mediocrity,” as he originally called it, sometimes also called “reversion to the mean.” It is now a widely used ...

"Regression to the mean" was the bane of my undergraduate statistics class. We knew that it was out there, and that the final exam would have a question about it, but no-one understood it or had ever ...

In the late 19th century, English polymath Sir Francis Galton noted that tall parents often had kids shorter than they were, while short parents often ended up with taller kids. He dubbed this ...