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Blaze@reddthat.com to Data is Beautiful@mander.xyzEnglish ·
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Parent/Child Height Relationships - Regression toward the Mean

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Parent/Child Height Relationships - Regression toward the Mean

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Blaze@reddthat.com to Data is Beautiful@mander.xyzEnglish ·
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Source of data: https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/T0HSJ1

Edit: removed OC as it’s not (sorry)

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    I don’t really understand how to read this, so only 96% of 5’ 4" boys are taller than their 5’ 2" father? What?

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      96% of males with a 5’4" mother and a 5’2" father are taller than 5’2"

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      Y=mothers height. X=Fathers height

      %=considering the height of both parents what % of girl/boy are taller than their mother/father

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        Ah, got it got it, sorry for my confusion lol.

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          Don’t worry. I was confused as well. This is a case of dataisnotsobeautiful

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            I think I just needed breakfast before I could appreciate it.

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