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THERE is an old saying that all good science is shorthand common sense. I am sorry that Prof. Arthur Thompson does not think it worth his while in the case of his just published far-reaching negroid cranial criterion to convert the esoteric methods of the anatomist into simple language for the benefit of other readers of NATURE, if not for that of the “professed statistician.” I hope he will meet me later when I ask him to discuss, as I propose shortly to do, the mathematico-statistical treatment of his volume, which is of a somewhat remarkable character. Meanwhile, in order to expedite those further investigations by professed craniologists which his discovery is exciting, it would be of great value if he would tell us to what negro series he, a priori, applied his criteria, and what percentages of pure negroid, non-negroid, and intermediate crania he found in that series.
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PEARSON, K. The Ancient Races of the Thebaid. Nature 71, 583 (1905). https://doi.org/10.1038/071583d0
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