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Ethel Mary Elderton (1878–1954) was a British eugenics researcher who worked with Francis Galton and Karl Pearson. 〔 Love, R. (1979). ''“Alice in Eugenics-Land”: Feminism and Eugenics in the scientific careers of Alice Lee and Ethel Elderton''. Annals of Science, 36(2), 145–158. 〕 Elderton attended Bedford College (London) where she become involved in the eugenics movement. She left without completing her studies in 1890, on the death of her father, and became a school teacher.〔.〕 In 1905 she resigned her teaching post to become Galton's assistant. Subsequently she became Galton Scholar and Fellow and Assistant Professor at University College London.〔(Pearson, Department of Statistics and colleagues' papers ), Archives in London and the M25 area, retrieved 2012-03-31.〕 She retired in 1933. Elderton produced many reports, the most controversial of which argued that predisposition to alcoholism was largely inherited. With her brother the actuary William Palin Elderton she wrote a ''Primer of Statistics''. The book has a preface by Galton. ==Writings== * Ethel M. Elderton (1910) A first study of the influence of parental alcoholism on the physique and ability of the offspring, University of London. Francis Galton laboratory for national eugenics. Eugenics laboratory memoirs; v.X. * W. Palin Elderton and Ethel M. Elderton (1909) ''Primer of Statistics''. London: A&C Black Ltd. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ethel M. Elderton」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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