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No contradiction. You are conflating within-group h^{2} with between-group. BG studies concern mostly exclusively the first, not the second. You claim they are inflated. You have offered no reason for this. However, it is known that political measurements are not perfectly reliable, this leads...

Actually, the blogger sourced all of them. All the numbers are links to the source. E.g. Cat -> http://genome.cshlp.org/content/17/11/1675.full I'm not qualified to answer anything about the more low-level stuff which you mentioned. - - - Updated - - - More or less, yes. Actually, some...

IQ tests obviously measure g. If one wants to measure the EI construct alone without g, just give children a lot of tests including EI and IQ tests, do a Schmid-Leiman transformation and get the EI factor (if it exists). Then check to see if it has any predictive ability without g. For the...

The key is not "to some degree". Pretty much no trait has a h^{2} of 1. Heritability estimates are independent of exact mechanism, which is what you are talking about. I don't see any reason why it should be inflated. It is probably deflated because they didn't correct for measurement...

That has been known for 100 years or so. It is not really in doubt, only among the PC people. Of course, heritability of group differences is the active question as was it since 1969 when Jensen restarted the discussion after its slumber. Expert opinion is moving towards hereditarianism and in...

Unfortunately, it is Zuk herself who is confused and deals in banalities. In fact, the very founder of the field (Francis Galton*) that studies nurture and nature (i.e. heritability), behavior genetics, noted this obvious point as though everybody already knew that. The question is not whether...

Think about it this way. All life generally shares a lot of DNA. Percent of DNA shared with: Cat: 90% Cow: 80% Mouse: 75% Fruit Fly: 60% Banana: 50% [source] And the number for chimps is something like 98 or 99%. Now, think about humans. Differences within the 1% DNA is (partly) what makes...

Large behavioral genetics studies do indeed show that political beliefs are heritable to some degree. This is not surprising since the first law of quantitative genetics is that all behavioral traits of all species are heritable. Here's a recent study that gained a lot of attention: K...

MB is not totally useless. The problem with MB is that: 1) The construction of it was not based on scientific thinking, but on pre-scientific psychological theories of Jung. 2) MB claims that humans are divisible into types, 16 in total. However, variation in personality (and most other stuff)...

Emotional intelligence is a second stratum group factor that correlates ~.8 with g (general intelligence). Studies based on EI tests measure mostly g and so whatever validity they have is mostly due to their g-loading. See: MacCann, C., Joseph, D. L., Newman, D. A., & Roberts, R. D. (2014)...