In a survey of college students, data were gathered on their actual height (height) in inches and

Question:

In a survey of college students, data were gathered on their actual height (height) in inches and the height they would like to be if they could magically be any height (magical height). The results, shown in the following scatterplot, have a correlation of 0.842.

a. Describe the direction, form, and strength of the association between magical height and height.

b. In the following scatterplot, the blue dots represent heights and magical heights for the females, and the orange dots represent the males. Remember that the correlation for all the surveyed students together was 0.842. Does this number change much if we just focus on the females? Just focus on the males? Explain