One day, Galton goes to a country fair.

天，高尔顿去参加个乡村集市。

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

而且，好吧，当然，高尔顿事情是磅。

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

高尔顿自己创造个术语，稍后会回过头来。

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

想从个过于简化高尔顿板模型开始。

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

这些假设绝对不种情况是高尔顿板。

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

高尔顿是位科学家和统计学家， 他认为，嘿，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：比赛组织者给了高尔顿张小纸条， 上面写着每个人猜测。

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.

高尔顿借鉴了他著名表弟查尔斯· 达尔文（ Charles Darwin） 关于自然选择理论，想知道这个前提如何扩展到人类在智力方面自然能力。

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， 高尔顿板说明了所有概率中最突出分布之，称为态分布， 更通俗地称为贝尔曲线，也称为高斯分布。

Sir Francis Galton gives a remarkable talk.

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

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·高尔顿 (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： 是 David Kestenbaum。今天在节目中，高尔顿先生，们重做您实验。

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

当弗朗西斯·高尔顿谈到其他物种“注定要永远处于荒野状态”时，他指是哪些条件？