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by AgentME 29 days ago
Another great example of the unintuitiveness of heritability is the fact that earrings are highly heritable. Earrings are highly correlated to a specific genetics (being female), so they're very "heritable", even though that correlation is an arbitrary cultural fashion.
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See my sibling comment. This is misleading for the same reason, but in this case the cause of misleading is narrowing the timespan under consideration to approximately now.