成績好的人未必能飛黃騰達,飛黃騰達的人未必能幸福快樂。
教育可以改變人的未來,信仰可以影響人的生命,有甚麼樣的父母會教養出甚麼樣的孩子。
這是我對Jukes-Edward 這本書做的短評。
最近讀了一本兩百多年前多版的書"Jukes-Edward",書中提到兩個家族兩百多年的家族變化史,比較網路上的中文版文章(關鍵字 Jukes, 903),發現引用的數字有諸多錯誤。
在整本書中,找不到903 這個數字。
因此我做了下面簡單的比較表,如果下次要引用這本書的數據,請參考這篇文章,不要直接在網路上複製貼上了。
如果哪裡漏掉了,也請回覆給我。
電子書"Jukes-Edward "原文出處:
https://archive.org/details/jukesedwards15623gut
綜合兩個家族的成員分析產生了統計學上常提到的常態分布 (normal distribution).
尤克斯(Jukes)家族成員有誤的網路文章 (四個部分寫錯,三個數據為提及)
人口總數:尤克斯(Jukes)家族成員 | 網路上文章的數字 (Google search key words: Jukes, 903) | 書中內容的數字 | 原文 |
調查人口數 | 903 | 1200 | He traced in part others, which carried the number up to 1,200 persons of the family of the Jukes |
流氓 | 310 | 310 | 310 of the 1,200 were professional paupers |
坐牢(罪犯) | 130 | 130 | There were 130 criminals who were convicted more or less often of crime |
殺人犯 | 7 | 7 | There were seven murderers |
酒徒 | 100 | N/A | |
小偷 | 60 | 60 | Sixty were habitual thieves who spent on the average twelve years each in lawless depredations |
妓女 | 190 | 50 | There were fifty women who lived lives of notorious debauchery |
商人 | 20 | 20 | Only twenty of the 1,200 learned a
trade, and ten of those learned it in the state prison |
死於嬰孩時期 | N/A | 300 | Three hundred of the 1,200, or one in four, died in infancy from lack of good care and good conditions |
作惡因而英年早逝 | N/A | 400 | Four hundred men and women were physically wrecked early by their own wickedness |
惡性病變 | N/A | 440 | Of the Jukes, 440 were more or less viciously diseased |
愛德華茲(Edward)家族成員有誤的網路文章 (四個部分寫錯,三個數據為提及)
人口數:1394人,其中有: 100位大學教授,愛德華茲(Edward)家族成員 | 網路上文章的數字 (Google search key words: Jukes, 903) | 書中內容的數字 | 原文 |
調查人口數 | 1394 | 1394+ | or by at least 1,394 of the other members of the family of Mr. Edwards |
大學教授 | 100 | 100+ | They have not only furnished thirteen college presidents and a hundred and more professors |
大學校長 | 14 | 13 | They have not only furnished thirteen college presidents and a hundred and more professors |
律師 | 70 | 100+ | a great array of more than 100 lawyers |
法官 | 30 | 30 | thirty judges |
醫生 | 60 | N/A | |
作家 | 60 | N/A | |
牧師/神學家 | 300 | 100+ | while the Edwards family has more than a 100 clergymen, missionaries, and theological professors |
議員 | 3 | 3 | three have been United States senators |
副總統 | 1 | 1 | one vice-president of the United States |
公職人員 | N/A | 80+ | Not one of the Jukes was ever elected to a public office, while more than eighty of the family of Jonathan Edwards have been especially honored |
大學畢業生 | N/A | 285 | Among the 285 college graduates of the Edwards family … |
軍人 | N/A | 75 | there were seventy-five officers in the army and navy from the family of Mr. Edwards |
Thank You .
回覆刪除您好,謝謝您的澄清、分享與分析。請問是否能夠引用在主日的證道呢?
回覆刪除Edwards圖表中的Edwards少了“s"
回覆刪除文章中的Edwards都少了s
回覆刪除謝謝提醒
刪除在"JUKES-EDWARDS A STUDY IN EDUCATION AND HEREDITY"
回覆刪除第八章第八段中有提及60位醫生
"There have been sixty physicians, all marked men."
第十三段也提到60位作家
" In the Edwards family some sixty have attained prominence in authorship or editorial life."
參考資料:
https://ia804505.us.archive.org/34/items/jukesedwards15623gut/15623-h/15623-h.htm
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