  Recently published measurements of the two nucleon short range correlation
($NN$-SRC) scaling factors, $a_2(A/d)$, strengthen the previously observed
correlation between the magnitude of the EMC effect measured in electron deep
inelastic scattering at $0.35\le x_B\le 0.7$ and the SRC scaling factor
measured at $x_B \ge 1$. The new results have improved precision and include
previously unmeasured nuclei. The measurements of $a_2(A/d)$ for $^9$Be and
$^{197}$Au agree with published predictions based on the EMC-SRC correlation.
This paper examines the effects of the new data and of different corrections to
the data on the slope and quality of the EMC-SRC correlation, the size of the
extracted deuteron IMC effect, and the free neutron structure function. The
results show that the linear EMC-SRC correlation is robust and that the slope
of the correlation is insensitive to most combinations of corrections examined
in this work. This strengthens the interpretation that both $NN$-SRC and the
EMC effect are related to high momentum nucleons in the nucleus.
