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Comment by lostmsu

13 hours ago

The author of this piece totally ignored that heritability is only part of the genetic lottery.

What do you mean?

  • 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)?