Galton designed it to illustrate his idea of regression to the mean,[2] which he called “reversion to mediocrity” and made part of his eugenist ideology.[3]
And pinball!!
TIL the predecessor to Plinko was created to support eugenics
They’re similar, but operate much differently as Plinko gives the user control of the drop position and rewards landing in the middle, and I think that distinction matters otherwise you could say modern pinball tables were created to support eugenics too, since they share similar design origins.
*wipes brow* almost lost another piece of my childhood
edited to add “origin” before “was”. it’s not perfect at all but i hope this reflects that better (without being too long, i’m sorry)
If you drop stuff in the middle, it piles up in the middle.
Wow. How bout that.
Gravity supports eugenics.
not only that, but it also clearly demonstrates that every stone starts almost exactly the same, and through sheer happenstance can end up toward the edges; that doesn’t make those stones flawed, they’re exactly the same as all the others. if you drop all the stones again, that one on the end could end up in the middle, and vice versa
It piles up in a distribution curve. If you add more levels for the balls to bounce through, the curve will flatten. If you remove levels it will form a higher peak.
What’s ironic is In population genetics, distribution curves are useful in describing allelic frequency in a population. They are used to describe how allelic frequencies shift under selection pressure. It ultimately can be used to explain why a wider genetic diversity is superior to a narrow genetic diversity.
Distribution curves were used to prove eugenics wrong.
:-)
This is why fascism always appeals to “common sense.”
There doesn’t have to be research or reason if you make it sound like it should just be.
This is a fucking pile. No more, no less.
No, that is not the interesting thing.
Whoa, whoa, you’re going to have to slow way down on the egghead talk if you want to get through to eugenicists.
Really it was the two-stage, unbuilt version which demonstrated regression to the mean
