It is reasonable to suggest that the amount of water received on a field during the growing season will influence the yield of cucumbers growing on it. Shape: The shape of the graph is curved downward...It is reasonable to suggest that the amount of water received on a field during the growing season will influence the yield of cucumbers growing on it. Shape: The shape of the graph is curved downward meaning the correlation is not linear. For example, The United States has the highest gun ownership rates and the highest suicide by gun rates among these countries, making the United States stand far away from the bulk of the data in the scatterplot.