In his book Gulliver ’s Travels, Jonathan Swift describes how the Lilliputians were able to measure Gulliver for new clothes, even though he was a giant compared to them. According to the text, “Then they measured my right thumb, and desired no more ... for by mathematical computation, once around the thumb is twice around the wrist, and so on to the neck and waist.” Is it true that once around the neck is twice around the waist? Find at least 10 willing subjects and take measurements of their necks and waists in millimeters. Arrange the data in ordered pair form (circumference of neck, circumference of waist). Draw the scatterplot for this data. Does the association appear to be linear? Find the equation of the best fit line for this set of data. What is the slope of this line? Is the slope near m = 2?
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