The unrelated claims below are ALL WRONG! Your job is to figure out why by looking at the data.

The News Says…​ Why it’s Fake

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linear regression plot: y=12.234x + -17.089; r-sq: 0.636 “According to the predictor function indicated here, the value on the x-axis will predict the value on the y-axis 63.6% of the time.”

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The average player on the Cranston East basketball team is 6′1″, so we know that most of the players are taller than 6′!

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Linear regression found a positive correlation (r=0.42) between people’s height and salary, so businesses are recognizing that taller people are more qualified.

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A pie chart showing percentage of each of six languages spoken at home for a sample of 67 students at El Paso High School. "Despite El Paso High School being near the Mexican border, a sample of 67 students found that Haitian Creole was the most-commonly spoken language at home (after English)."

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