Heights and mid-parent heights are given for 18 college students. Draw a scatterplot for the data, using different symbols for males and females as instructed in part (b). Based on the scatterplot, would you say that the correlation between height and mid-parent height is higher for the females in the sample or for the males? Or are the correlation values about the same for males and females?

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Below is the scatterplot of the given data. The correlation between these two variables seems to be a bit higher for females, since the red dots on the graph (data for females) seem to follow their regression line more than blue dots (data for males) do - blu dots seem a bit more scattered than red dots which causes lower correlation coefficient for &quot;male data&quot;. Here is the scatterplot of the given data:

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