Given the partial correlation, is the correlation confounded by the control variable? Explain why or why not. If you computed a partial correlation between lifespan and exercise, controlling for genetics, it would subtract the correlations of genetics with both exercise and lifespan from their correlation with each other. If the partial r is lower than their original r, then genetics confounded their correlation; the correlation between exercise and lifespan is lower after the effects of genetics have been removed. If the original and the partial r are similar, then the control variable, genetics did not confound the correlation of exercise and longevity