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Parent/Child Height Relationships - Regression toward the Mean (files.catbox.moe)
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Source of data: https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/T0HSJ1

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[–] 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...