The correlation coefficient decreased because we added an ``untypical'' subject, with a low ACHSCOR and a high INTEL score. Adding the point on the scatterplot, it is clear that we will need to make far greater compromises in fitting a line to the new data than the original one.
MTB > insert 0 1 'ACHSCOR' 'INTEL' DATA> 20 30 DATA> end 1 ROWS READ MTB > corr 'ACHSCOR' 'INTEL' Correlation of ACHSCOR and INTEL = 0.287