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by jacobolus 4778 days ago
You’re misunderstanding “heritability”. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heritability http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twin_study#Methods

The study in question: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17564516

PDF: http://psychology.uchicago.edu/people/faculty/cacioppo/jtcre...

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I see, obviously the math is a bit more involved. I assumed those 8000 were identical twins who were separated at birth. Thank you