If we decrease it, it's going to become more negative. If you square something that is more negative, it's not going to become smaller. Let's say before you remove the data point, r was, I'm just gonna make up a value, let's say it was negative 0.4, and then after removing the outlier, r becomes more negative, and it's going to be equal to negative 0.5. Well, if you square this, this would be positive 0.16, while this would be positive 0.25. So if r is already negative, and if you make it more negative, it would not decrease r squared. It actually would increase r squared. So I will rule this one out.