[temp-dude-87844]

Isn't "~50% heritable" a different way of stating that the results are indistinguishable from a coin flip? That doesn't sound too hereditary.

[an3waccount]

No? Lets say we intro-/extroversion is either heritable (with prob .5) or random(with prob .5). If both of your parents are introverted you have a 50% chance of inheriting the introversion of your parents or a 50% chance at a coinflip, which gives us 75% for introversion and 25% for extraversion.

[nils-m-holm]

I'd rather interpret it as "50% are fixed (nature) and the other 50% are a coin flip (nurture).

[c8d3f7b49897918]

No:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heritability

[extra88]

No, because it's not a binary choice. There are degrees to which people are open to new experiences or extraverted.

[aaron-santos]

I took it to mean a covariance of 0.5.