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Cake day: July 6th, 2023

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  • Thanks for the article. From further down the introduction:

    This is despite numerous studies demonstrating that variability within a breed is greater than among breeds7,11,12. While heritability for certain behavioral traits such as human sociability and biddability have been convincingly demonstrated7,13,14, breed is largely uninformative when it comes to predicting behavior in an individual dog7.

    So it looks like while breed stereotypes might not be helpful in predicting an individual dog’s behavior, they could still have an effect on the average behavior of that breed. I’ll have to look more into this, the subject is less concluded than I had thought.

    Edit: It looks like this study is just self-reporting on how people feel about different breeds?