Discussion: Should MBAs take Golf Lessons? Read the handout accompanying
the New York Times article "Investing it: Duffers Need Not
Apply" (NYT, 31 May 1998, Section 3, p.1). The graphs below
show the data from the article. How do you think the outliers were identified?
Full dataset from the article: r =
-0.042
Outliers "scientifically removed":
r = -0.414