Part 1 — CHAPTER II.
Reading edition
CHAPTER II.
ARRANGEMENT AND FORMATION OF THE SERIES. LAWS OF ERROR.
§§ 1, 2. Indication of the nature of a Law of Error or Divergence.
3. Is there necessarily but one such law,
4. Applicable to widely distinct classes of things?
5, 6. This cannot be proved directly by statistics;
7, 8. Which in certain cases show actual asymmetry.
9, 10. Nor deductively;
11. Nor by the Method of Least Squares.
12. Distinction between Laws of Error and the Method of Least Squares.
13. Supposed existence of types.
14–16. Homogeneous and heterogeneous classes.
17, 18. The type in the case of human stature, &c.
19, 20. The type in mental characteristics.
21, 22. Applications of the foregoing principles and results.