What Does a Heritability Coefficient Of.50 Mean

question 87

Multiple Choice

What does a heritability coefficient of.50 mean?

• A) that the trait in question is 50% genetic and 50% environmental
• B) that 50% of the population scores above average for this trait and 50% scores below
• C) that 50% of the variance in personality scores in a population is due to genetics
• D) that this trait is normally distributed in the population

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