According to Covey, gaining an increased awareness into one's own basic paradigms helps us: a. Understand the extent to which we have been influenced by our experiences.
b. Examine our assumptions against reality in order to correct and improve them.
c. Listen to others and be open to their perceptions, thereby getting a larger picture and a far more objective view of reality.
d. Shift our paradigms when we realize they are not in alignment with objective reality external to ourselves.

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.