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A patronymic surname transferred from the given name.
A placename
A city, the county seat of Atkinson County, Georgia, United States.
An unincorporated community in Medina County, Texas, United States.
An unincorporated community in Ainsworth, Langlade County, Wisconsin, United States.
A ghost town in south-east Victoria, Australia.
Source: en.wiktionary.orgPearson shut out of science everything which the nineteenth-century had brought into it. He told his scholars that they must put up with a fraction of the universe, and a very small fraction at that - the circle reached by the senses, where sequence could be taken for granted. Henry Adams
At last their universe had been wrecked by rays, and Karl Pearson undertook to cut the wreck loose with an axe, leaving science adrift on a sensual raft in the midst of a supersensual chaos. Henry Adams
The greatest foreign minister in Canadian history except for Lester Pearson...the person who tried first of all to get rid of the deficit...the credit for the fight in trying to get rid of the deficit belongs to Joe Clark and John Crosbie, and yet they are scorned. Joe Clark
At heart, Pearson is in the intellectual property business, be it through publishing books or the 'Financial Times'. Marjorie Scardino
Simpson's paradox (Simpson 1951; Blyth 1972), first encountered by Pearson in 1899 (Aldrich 1995), refers to the phenomenon whereby an event C increases the probability of E in a given population p and, at the same time, decreases the probability of E in every subpopulation of p. Judea Pearl
Watch John Blue give Rob Pearson a cross-check like you can't believe. Watch this. He gets up, Pearson goes back, WHAM! Well what can you expect from a guy named Blue? Don Cherry