Darwinian logic gives fathers an edge over their sons, at least on average. This is one of many sources of intergenerational ...

For example, in simple linear regression, you seek to measure ... The calculation of r will give you the statistical degree of correlation. A positive r or positive correlation indicates that ...

He published a book, the famous Hereditary Genius (Galton, 1869) to explain this curious phenomenon to himself, and in the process discovered the law of statistical correlation and regression.