Source of data: https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/T0HSJ1
Edit: removed OC as it’s not (sorry)
I don’t really understand how to read this, so only 96% of 5’ 4" boys are taller than their 5’ 2" father? What?
Y=mothers height. X=Fathers height
%=considering the height of both parents what % of girl/boy are taller than their mother/father
Don’t worry. I was confused as well. This is a case of dataisnotsobeautiful
Pepsi lookin’ ass chart
How about daughters taller than father and sons taller than mother?
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?
The X and Y are just labeled weird, both graphs reference father’s height has the X and mother’s height as the Y
Yeah, but there is no graph comparing son vs mother and daughter vs father.
And it seems like an odd thing to omit.
If I’m reading the referenced link right, the data is from 1886(?), so it’s not terribly recent, either.
Wouldn’t the most determining factor here be the height of the chosen partner?