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One example of regression toward the mean is that none of the great English poets (Addison, Keats, Shelley, Milton, Shakespeare, Goldsmith, Johnson) had exceptional children. German mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss even | One example of regression toward the mean is that none of the great English poets (Addison, Keats, Shelley, Milton, Shakespeare, Goldsmith, Johnson) had exceptional children. German mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss even forbade his sons to enter the sciences out of fear they would tarnish their family name.<ref>http://www.gausschildren.org/genwiki/index.php?title=Letter:GAUSS,_Charles_Henry_to_Florian_Cajori_-_1898-12-21</ref> | ||
Physicist W. Shockley once said, “my children represent a very significant regression” caused by “my first wife—their mother—(who) had not as high an academic-achievement standing as I had.”<ref>https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-08-14-mn-369-story.html</ref> | Physicist W. Shockley once said, “my children represent a very significant regression” caused by “my first wife—their mother—(who) had not as high an academic-achievement standing as I had.”<ref>https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-08-14-mn-369-story.html</ref> | ||