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

submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by Blaze@reddthat.com to c/dataisbeautiful@mander.xyz

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

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[–] RootBeerGuy@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 3 months ago (7 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@lemmy.world 16 points 3 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

[–] r_se_random@sh.itjust.works 5 points 3 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@lemmy.world 9 points 3 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] r_se_random@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 months ago

Wow, thanks for checking on that

[–] grubberfly@mander.xyz 1 points 3 months ago

yes, 928 children and 205 parents it seems.

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

[–] RootBeerGuy@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 3 months ago

Oh, completely missed that, thanks!

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