arson's (1910) data on drinking and wages
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<h3>Description</h3>

<p>In 1910, Karl Pearson weighed in on the debate, fostered by the temperance movement,
on the evils done by alcohol not only to drinkers, but to their families.
The report &quot;A first study of the influence
of parental alcoholism on the physique and ability of their offspring&quot;
was an ambitious attempt to the new methods of statistics to bear on
an important question of social policy, to see if the hypothesis that
children were da