Those girls had grown up in the first bitter-hard times, and had got little schooling themselves. But the younger brothers and sisters, for whom they made such sacrifices and who have had “advantages,” never seem to me, when I meet them now, half as interesting or as well educated. The older girls, who helped to break up the wild sod, learned so much from life, from poverty, from their mothers and grandmothers; they had all, like Antonia, been early awakened and made observant by coming at a tender age from an old country to a new. A good education is the key to success. People are better off farming than going to school. Women’s strength helps immigrant families to succeed. Poverty leads people to have uninteresting lives.

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Griffin correctly concludes that the coordinate pair for the russian federation is an influential point, because removing the russian federation from the relationship will significantly change the trend of the regression line. is an influential point, because removing the russian federation from the relationship will not significantly affect the estimated coefficient of determination of the regression line. is not an influential point, because the russian federation does not have the highest cvdir of all 1111 nations in the scatterplot. is an influential point, because removing the russian federation from the relationship will not significantly affect the estimated slope of the regression line. is not an influential point, because the russian federation has a positive residual in the least-squares linear regression.