Eugenics

See nautil.us/issue/92/frontiers/how-eugenics-shaped-statistics

Basically the methods of NHST (null-hypothesis significance testing) were contrived so that R. A. Fisher, Karl Pearson and the other pioneers could defend eugenics and appear to be impartial scientists just upholding objective truth. That's why they favored frequentist statistics.

It's a damning highlight of just how many people feel motivated to do science fraud, when the field of statistics itself basically arose from that motivation.

What links here

• History of statistics