Noteworthy Families (Modern Science) - An Index to Kinships in Near Degrees between Persons Whose Achievements Are Honourable, and Have Been Publicly Recorded by Edgar Schuster;Francis Galton
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to refer to 337, and not to 207; (2) that 1 per cent. of the
generality are noteworthy--that is to say, there are 3.37 noteworthies to every 337 persons of the generality. TABLE VII.--NUMBER OF NOTEWORTHY KINSMEN RECORDED IN 207 RETURNS. __________________________________________________________ | | || | | | Kinship. | Numbers || Kinship. | Numbers | | | Recorded.|| | Recorded. | |_________________|__________||________________| __________| | | || | | | _fa_ | 81 || --- | --- | | _bro_ | 104 || --- | --- | | | || | | | _fa fa_ | 40 || _fa fa fa_ | 11 | | _me fa_ | 42 || _fa me fa_ | 2 | | _fa bro_ | 45 || _me fa fa_ | 5 | | _me bro_ | 52 || _me me fa_ | 1 | | | || | | | _fa bro son_ | 30 || _fa fa bro_ | 12 | | _me bro son_ | 19 || _fa me bro_ | 2 | | _fa si son_ | 28 || _me fa bro_ | 6 | | _me si son_ | 22 || _me me bro_ | 2 | |_________________|__________||________________|___________| Thus, for the fathers of F.R.S., 81 are recorded as noteworthy, against 3.37 of fathers of the generality--that is, they are 24.1 times as numerous. For the first cousins of F.R.S. there are 99 noteworthies, divided amongst four kinds of male first-cousins, or |
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