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Re:Twins reared apart do not exist by lostmsu on Sunday December 14, 2025 @06:31AM (#46262340)
The author of this piece totally ignored that heritability is only part of the genetic lottery.
Re:Twins reared apart do not exist by lapcat on Sunday December 14, 2025 @06:38AM (#46262367)
What do you mean?
Re:Twins reared apart do not exist by lostmsu on Sunday December 14, 2025 @06:45AM (#46262395)
That heritability doesn't cover all genetic factors. E.g. out of 100% of IQ variation 50% might be inherited, but that doesn't say that the rest is nurture, right? It can still have a huge factor of genetic lottery. E.g. isn't heritability the mean of the genetic effects, but there's also the rest of the distribution (std. dev)?
Re:Twins reared apart do not exist by IAmBroom on Monday December 15, 2025 @12:56PM (#46277938)
Still have no idea what distinction you are making.
Re:Twins reared apart do not exist by tptacek on Monday December 15, 2025 @01:58PM (#46278732)
"Heritability", strictly construed (as is the case in every study establishing heritability numbers) isn't necessarily a description of a "genetic lottery" at all. Plenty of things are highly heritable and not at all genetically determined, and the converse is also true!