Stats question:

A student wonders if tall women tend to date taller men than do short women. She measures herself, her dorm roommate and the women in the adjoining rooms; then she measures the next man each women dates (here is the data with heights in inches)

Women 66 64 66 65 70 65
Men 72 68 70 68 71 65

Using a calculator, find the correlation r between the heights of the men and women. Does the data show that taller women tend to date taller men? explain.

And how would r change if..
all men were 6 inches shorter than the heights given on the table

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Stats question: 

A student wonders if tall women tend to date taller men than do short women. She measures herself, her dorm roommate and the women in the adjoining rooms; then she measures the next man each women dates (here is the data with heights in inches) 

Women 66 64 66 65 70 65 
Men      72 68 70 68 71 65 

Using a calculator, find the correlation r between the heights of the men and women. Does the data show that taller women tend to date taller men? explain.


And how would r change if..
all men were 6 inches shorter than the heights given on the table