Are these slopes and intercepts completely independent of each other? As all linear plots constitute the local tangents to the corresponding curves at the average of the reaction energies of the data points, they cannot be directly compared without accounting for reaction energy. However, the underlying parameters that are the cause of these local observations are likely to show some broad similarities. On their own, the observed intercepts and slopes themselves hold less information about the energy response, besides qualitatively showing whether the average of the ΔEr values is larger or smaller than Eeq.