In their study of the heritability of mental toughness, Horsburgh and colleagues also included measures of the Big Five personality traits. Why was this important?
A) It allowed them to determine potential congruence in heritability among multiple traits.
B) It allowed them to better estimate the degree of environmentality in the sample.
C) It allowed them to examine correlations among mental toughness and other traits such as conscientiousness, informing their conclusions on reliability.
D) It allowed them to determine if their sample was similar to or different from other populations, better informing their conclusions on generalizability.
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