Re:Average IQ scores seem to have been falling and populatio...
by Will_Parker on Friday September 29, 2017 @05:16PM
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It's interesting to visualize what % heritable actually means. Here is a graph from a recent study trying to predict height from human genes. They found a correlation of 0.64
That means, in practice, your height outcome tends strongly toward a fairly narrow range around the predicted mean. I found it illuminating to visualize the pattern.
https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-4qSTryry0so/WcAhygytvTI/AAAAAAAAS...
That means, in practice, your height outcome tends strongly toward a fairly narrow range around the predicted mean. I found it illuminating to visualize the pattern.
(The full article is http://infoproc.blogspot.ca/2017/09/accurate-genomic-predict...)