gwern comments on Open thread, September 16-22, 2013 - Less Wrong

5 Post author: Metus 16 September 2013 05:18AM

You are viewing a comment permalink. View the original post to see all comments and the full post content.

Comments (141)

Sort By: Best

You are viewing a single comment's thread. Show more comments above.

Comment author: gwern 16 September 2013 04:28:52PM 23 points [-]

Punch genetics heritability longevity into Google Scholar; first hit says:

The heritability of longevity was estimated to be 0.26 for males and 0.23 for females.

Comment author: jsteinhardt 18 September 2013 05:39:38AM 0 points [-]

Does this imply that the other 75% is due to life choices? This doesn't obvious to me.

Comment author: wedrifid 18 September 2013 05:46:05AM 5 points [-]

Does this imply that the other 75% is due to life choices? This doesn't obvious to me.

No, that is not what heritability means. The other 75% is the myriad of other influences of environment, chaotic chance and life choices.