I’m afraid your understanding of heritability is deficient.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » 1. Science, Faith, and Not Ruling Out Possibilities] Reference

If heritability is less than 100 percent, then the characteristic being studied is by definition "multifactorial.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Homosexuality and Biology] Reference

My point was limited to correcting a misstatment of the meaning of the term heritability, nothing more.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » 1. Science, Faith, and Not Ruling Out Possibilities] Reference

There is little philosophical work that critically takes on the notion of heritability in its evolutionary context.    From Wordnik.com.  [Heritability] Reference

I think this is a more important fact than any estimates of "heritability".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com] Reference

A high calculated "heritability" says nothing about the possibility of future change.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com] Reference

In discussing "heritability" in the media, scientists have allowed the public to confuse.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Genius in All of Us] Reference

In general, the so-called "heritability" of schizophrenia is as useless a calculation as the heritability of IQ.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com] Reference

Philosophical issues arising from heritability analysis.    From Wordnik.com.  [Heritability] Reference

Thus the Galtonian notion of heritability is fundamental.    From Wordnik.com.  [Miss Winter Solstice] Reference

Some important studies of heritability have examined twins.    From Wordnik.com.  [Understanding ADHD -- Willingham] Reference

An imaginary example illustrates one way of assessing heritability.    From Wordnik.com.  [Heritability] Reference

If this theory is right, the heritability of ornaments would be high.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Science Wars] Reference

The slope of the regression line is .75, which indicates high heritability.    From Wordnik.com.  [Heritability] Reference

The argument connecting heritability to environmental malleability is simple.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Distinction Between Innate and Acquired Characteristics] Reference

The heritability of a trait says nothing about how easy or hard it is to change.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Moral Animal: Why We Are the Way We Are: The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology] Reference

The heritability measure does not get us very far in understanding schizophrenia.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dan Agin: More Than Genes IV: Epigenetics, the Womb, and Mental Illness] Reference

A trait can show high heritability in one population, but low heritability in another.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Distinction Between Innate and Acquired Characteristics] Reference

In this example, once the stable equilibrium is reached, the heritability, h2, is zero.    From Wordnik.com.  [Miss Winter Solstice] Reference

It can be reduced to three parts: variability, heritability, and differential survival.    From Wordnik.com.  [Valerie Tarico: When Science Teachers Don't Believe In Evolution] Reference

This technique and the measures of heritability it generates are explained in the entry.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Distinction Between Innate and Acquired Characteristics] Reference

In a population of genetically identical individuals, all traits have a heritability of zero.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Distinction Between Innate and Acquired Characteristics] Reference

Discussions of the viability of heritability measures were most heated in the 1970s and 1980s.    From Wordnik.com.  [Heritability] Reference

Though Ridley devotes much attention to heritability, he doesn't seem completely clear about it.    From Wordnik.com.  [What's Not in Your Genes] Reference

Innateness must be clearly distinguished from heritability, at least in the scientific sense of that term.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Distinction Between Innate and Acquired Characteristics] Reference

Both the phenotypic variation and heritability required for natural selection to occur have a genetic basis.    From Wordnik.com.  [Natural selection] Reference

The heritability of leukemia, and of cancers of the stomach, lung, pancreas, ovary and bladder is even lower.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stop Blaming Your Genes] Reference

Measurement of heritability does not, therefore, require that we know anything about which genes affect a trait.    From Wordnik.com.  [What's Not in Your Genes] Reference

I will use a few simple examples to illustrate the important concepts involved in producing heritability measures.    From Wordnik.com.  [Heritability] Reference

Providing equal access to education for all children in a community will increase the heritability of IQ in that community.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Distinction Between Innate and Acquired Characteristics] Reference

The notion of heritability relevant here is the purely phenotypic, purely statistical notion developed by Francis Galton (1869).    From Wordnik.com.  [Miss Winter Solstice] Reference

Other researchers have determined that violent males have low levels of serotonin, a condition that has a high rate of heritability.    From Wordnik.com.  [Desperately Seeking DNA] Reference

For example, some untenable ideas about the heritability of IQ are a central component of hereditarian explanations of group differences.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dan Agin: Black and White in America IV: IQ Myths and Realities] Reference

Philosophical discussion over measuring heritability has arisen mostly from the use of hb2 measures in behavioral genetics and psychology.    From Wordnik.com.  [Heritability] Reference