Parent/Child Height Relationships - Regression toward the Mean
Parent/Child Height Relationships - Regression toward the Mean
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Source of data: https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/T0HSJ1
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I might miss the point, but the height is dependent on both parents genetically, so just comparing mothers with daughters is a bit like the usual "correlation does not equal causation" thingie, or not?
6 0 ReplyThe X and Y are just labeled weird, both graphs reference father's height has the X and mother's height as the Y
15 0 ReplyYeah, but there is no graph comparing son vs mother and daughter vs father.
And it seems like an odd thing to omit.
5 0 ReplyIf I'm reading the referenced link right, the data is from 1886(?), so it's not terribly recent, either.
7 0 ReplyWow, thanks for checking on that
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Oh, completely missed that, thanks!
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