But if we remove this point, what's going to happen? Well, this least squares regression is being pulled down here by this outlier. So if you were to remove this point, the least squares regression line could move up on the left-hand side, and so you'll probably have a line that looks more like that. And I'm just hand-drawing it, but even what I hand-drew looks like a better fit for the leftover points. And so clearly, the new line that I drew after removing the outlier, this has a more negative slope. So removing the outlier would decrease r. r would get closer to negative one. It would be closer to being a perfect negative correlation.