Notes and queries on anthropology, for the use of travellers and residents in uncivilized lands (1874)
British Association for the Advancement of Science · London, E. Stanford · leaf 175
hat the frequency of small deviations must be very much greater than that of large ones, and that the larger the deviation is, whether above or below the average, so the frequency of the occurrence diminishes in an accelerating degree. It also shows, owing to the suppositions introduced, that the… … in which I suppose 1000 men to be ranged in a long line in order of stature, beginning with the tallest at A and ending with the shortest at B. Then the middle man at C (500th in the scale) will be of the average height, and the 250th man at D will be as much taller than the one at C (owing to the…
