Working Paper | Approaching Statistics from a Critical, Anti-Eugenics Lens

Tsion Agaro ‘26 (she/her) is a student interested in the way eugenics has plagued multiple disciplines, including statistics, which is a field that boasts objectivity and actuality. This paper discusses the history of statistics and its connections to eugenics, how this connection should be acknowledged, how the lack of anti-eugenics education today is detrimental, and potential alternatives.

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