A term Galton himself coined, and I'll get back to, in a minute.

尔顿自己创造的一个术语，稍后我会回头来。

I'd like to kick things off with an overly  simplified model of the Galton board.

我想用一个化的加尔顿板模型来开场。

And, OK, sure, the Galton thing was one pound off.

而且，好吧，确实，尔顿那次只差一磅。

One day, Galton goes to a country fair.

有一天，尔顿去参加了一个乡村集市。

One situation where these assumptions are decidedly NOT  true would be the Galton board.

一个这些假设明显不成立的情况就是加尔顿板。

Galton's a scientist and a statistician, and he figures, hey, I can do an experiment here, right?

尔顿是个科兼统计， 他认为，嘿，我可以在这里做个实验， 对吧？

KESTENBAUM: The contest organizers gave Galton the little slips of paper with everyone's guesses on them.

凯斯特恩鲍姆：比赛组织者给了尔顿所有人的猜测写在小纸条上的纸条。

GOLDSTEIN: We came up with a plan to repeat Galton's experiment.

戈尔德斯坦：我们想出了一个计划， 重复尔顿的实验。

Taking a page from his famous cousin Charles Darwin's theories on natural selection, Galton wondered how that premise might extend to humans' natural ability when it came to intelligence.

尔顿借鉴了他著名的表弟查尔斯· 达尔文（ Charles Darwin） 关自然选择的论，想知道这个前提如何扩展到人类在智力方面的自然能力。

More specifically, the Galton board  illustrates one of the most prominent distributions in all of probability, known as the Normal distribution, more colloquially known as a Bell curve, and  also called a Gaussian distribution.

更具体地说， 加尔顿板展示了一种概率中最为显着的分布，即正态分布， 也俗称钟形曲线，又被称作斯分布。

He was called the Galton Professor of Eugenics at University College London, but he's the one who changed it to the Galton Professor of Genetics and absolutely distinguished himself from eugenics and World War II racism and so forth.

他是伦敦大院优生的加尔顿教授，但他本人将这一职位更名为加尔顿遗传教授，并明确与优生及第二次世界大战期间的种族主义等划清了界限。

Sir Francis Galton gives a remarkable talk.

弗朗西斯·尔顿爵士 (Sir Francis Galton) 发表了精彩的演讲。

The first attempts to do it in the western world began with English scientist Francis Galton in the 1800s.

1800 年代，英国科弗朗西斯·尔顿 (Francis Galton) 首次尝试在西方世界这样做。