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The Importance of Intuition in Genetics
Some people have stronger innate intuitions that make them feel like there should be a supernatural explanation for things. But then the degree to which you are amenable to overriding or changing your intuitions depends a lot on cultural factors and like your family and the society you live in. So it's a phenomenon with multiple structural layers. And so, I mean, that matters for forensics, it matters for a bunch of things. It will matter if you want to do genetic engineering. Everything is somewhat heritable to various degrees. Something like schizophrenia is 80% heritable, right? That's really important for genetic prediction. How complex the trait is affects, you know, how good your predictions are