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Parent/Child Height Relationships - Regression toward the Mean (files.catbox.moe)
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[–] Sas@beehaw.org 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

That's exactly what this is showing. The x axis is the fathers height and the y-axis the mothers height so you see daughters change of being taller going up when their dads are bigger. For sons the chance of being bigger than their father goes up with tall mothers.