One day, Galton goes to a country fair.

天，去参加个乡村集市。

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

而且，好吧，当然，的事情是磅。

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

自己创造的个术语，稍后我会回过头来。

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

我想从个过于简化的型开始。

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

这些假设绝对不正确的种情况是。

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

是位科学家和统计学家， 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.

KESTENBAUM：比赛组织者给张小纸条， 上面写着每个人的猜测。

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.

借鉴他著名的表弟查斯· 达文（ Charles Darwin） 关于自然选择的理论，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， 说明所有概率中最突出的分布之，称为正态分布， 更通俗地称为贝曲线，也称为斯分布。

Sir Francis Galton gives a remarkable talk.

弗朗西斯·爵士 (Sir Francis Galton) 发表精彩的演讲。

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

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

KESTENBAUM: And I'm David Kestenbaum. Today on the show, Mr. Galton, we redo your experiment.

KESTENBAUM： 我是 David Kestenbaum。今天在节目中，先生，我们重做您的实验。

To which conditions was Francis Galton referring, when he spoke of those other species as " destined to perpetual wildness" ?

当弗朗西斯·谈到其他物种“注定要永远处于荒野状态”时，他指的是哪些条件？