Posted by alexandra_k on December 1, 2005, at 22:34:45
In reply to heritability » alexandra_k, posted by Larry Hoover on November 29, 2005, at 16:18:44
heh heh
>Heritability and environmentability are population concepts. They tell us nothing about an individual. A heritability of .40 informs us that, on average, about 40% of the individual differences that we observe in, say, shyness may in some way be attributable to genetic individual difference. It does NOT mean that 40% of any person's shyness is due to his/her genes and the other 60% is due to his/her environment.
thanks!
i'd like to study biology one day...
(but looks like there is math in it)
;-)
interesting...
okay... so it 'does NOT mean that...'
though of course...
it could still be true that...
;-)
it is just that you can't deduce that from the 'heritability' concept
interesting...
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