Sir Francis Galton coined the term “regression to the mean” — or “regression towards mediocrity,” as he originally called it, sometimes also called “reversion to the mean.” It is now a widely used ...

Regression to the mean is the term used to describe the effect by which individuals selected on the basis of an initial measurement which is particularly high or low compared with other members of the ...

High stock prices, low interest rates and non-existent volatility have lulled investors into a false sense of security. Avoid the temptation to extrapolate events of the immediate past into the ...

"Regression to the mean" was the bane of my undergraduate statistics class. We knew that it was out there, and that the final exam would have a question about it, but no-one understood it or had ever ...

In the late 19th century, English polymath Sir Francis Galton noted that tall parents often had kids shorter than they were, while short parents often ended up with taller kids. He dubbed this ...