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Apparently started with attempts to account for observer bias in precise astronomical instruments, turned into a general metrology crisis, ended in Taylorism, Jungian psychology, etc.
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Apparently when Gauss invented least-squares, it was in part to solve this problem, and there was lot of debate about its validity. Karl Pearson developed his chi-square test etc to address that. Never knew this context.
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Reaction time studies on the order of 1/10th s was the foundation of all pre-modern psychology looks like. The whole thing strikes me as similar to phrenology or handwriting analysis for personality, etc. Empirical bullshit science is the best kind of bullshit science.
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