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Parent/Child Height Relationships - Regression toward the Mean (files.catbox.moe)

submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Source of data: https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/T0HSJ1

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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?

[–] tehevilone 16 points 5 months ago (2 children)

The X and Y are just labeled weird, both graphs reference father's height has the X and mother's height as the Y

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, but there is no graph comparing son vs mother and daughter vs father.

And it seems like an odd thing to omit.

[–] tehevilone 9 points 5 months ago (2 children)

If I'm reading the referenced link right, the data is from 1886(?), so it's not terribly recent, either.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Wow, thanks for checking on that

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

yes, 928 children and 205 parents it seems.

wonder how the trend shown here has changed in almost 150 years...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Oh, completely missed that, thanks!