How heritable are human traits like personality, height, mental health, physical health, education, religiosity, and conservatism? (h^2 estimates)

Here's my attempt to compile the heritabilities (in the narrow sense of h^2) for many different interesting human traits. Before you read this, however, I recommend you read our piece on the Missing Heritability Problem, which provides important context for interpreting this information. Newer, genome-wide association studies tend to get substantially lower estimates for heritability than the twin study figures listed below, and it is still a debate in the field which approach to measuring h...
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The Missing Definition Of Morality

It is common to hear discussions of whether something is moral or immoral, as if "moral" were a word with a specific, agreed-upon meaning. Unfortunately, the word has so many meanings that its interpretation is extremely difficult without extra information. For example, if I say "murder is immoral", I could actually mean any of the following: 1. Murder violates an abstract principle that I would like all people to live by. 2. The Bible (or some other religious text) forbids murder. 3. ...
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