[1][2] Cave spent eleven years teaching mathematics to girls at a high school in Clapham in south-west London and doing computing work at home.
[3] Pearson hoped to establish evidence of the inheritance of attributes by collecting physical and mental data from 4000 children and their parents, which included some of Cave's high school students.
[2] Cave started working full-time as a computer at the Galton Laboratory in 1913, in which time she co-authored two papers published in Biometrika, including Numerical Illustrations of the Variate Difference Method.
[5] Cave also created correlation tables in 1917 based on a series of mice breeding experiments by Raphael Weldon, a colleague of Pearson's at University College.
[7] She examined the effects of loads on different areas of planes during flight, and her research helped to improve aircraft stability and propeller efficiency.