A Heritability Coefficient of ____ Means About 50 Percent of the Difference

question 87

Multiple Choice

A heritability coefficient of ____ means about 50 percent of the difference between people on a specific characteristic is the result of heredity.

• A) .5
• B) 5
• C) 50
• D) 500

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Definitions:

Interquartile Range

The measure of variability which is the difference between the third quartile and the first quartile in a dataset, indicating the spread of the middle 50%.

Percentiles

Values or scores below which a given percentage of observations in a group of observations fall.

Decile

A statistical measure dividing a dataset into ten equal parts, each containing 10% of the data points.

Median

The middle value in a set of data, where half the numbers are above it and half are below, when the data is arranged in ascending order.