Are children of “tall parents” as tall as their parents? And similarly, are children of “short parents” as short as their parents?
Part 1: Analysis with Galton’s original data set Galton’s work on children and parents’ height was published in: Galton, F. (1886): “Regression towards mediocrity in hereditary stature”, Journal of the Anthropological Institute, 15: 246-63. In this first part of the project you are asked to reconstruct the original data from this original article and replicate […]