| ▲ | tptacek 17 hours ago | |
The heritability statistic that occurs in the literature is the ratio of genetic variance to phenotypic variance. Two corrollaries: * When discussing heritability results from the literature, we are discussing that statistic, not your intuitive understanding of what the word should mean. * In the scientific literature, your conception of heritability doesn't operate. In the scientific sense, the number of hands you have has low heritability, despite being genetically determined. I think you're going to find "let's check Wiktionary" is not the decisive move in these kinds of discussions that it is elsewhere. | ||
| ▲ | AgentME 16 hours ago | parent [-] | |
Another great example of the unintuitiveness of heritability is the fact that earrings are highly heritable. Earrings are highly correlated to a specific genetics (being female), so they're very "heritable", even though that correlation is an arbitrary cultural fashion. | ||