A Simple Exposition of Jensen's Error.

Milkman, Roger

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A Simple Exposition of Jensen's Error.

Milkman, Roger

Journal of Educational Statistics, v3 n3 p203-08 Fall 1978

Sets of randomly generated numbers are used to produce simulated data sets to illustrate that high heritability of a property within each of two populations may be consistent with a vanishingly small heritability in the combined population. (A response by Jensen appears in the next issue of Journal of Educational Statistics, p.385). (CTM)

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