This is a fascinating phenomenon to see data for. It’s fun to look at the strongly heritable occupations and speculate on the more direct causes of heritability

This is a fascinating phenomenon to see data for. It’s fun to look at the strongly heritable occupations and speculate on the more direct causes of heritability. Becoming a lawyer probably generally requires a good education, which is probably strongly correlated with wealth, which is probably strongly correlated to parents’ wealth. Even if every child’s desired career path is chosen randomly, the children who desire to become lawyers whose parents are lawyers will probably be more likely than average to succeed in that path. I’m sure the actual genetic heritability of traits plays some part, but I doubt it is very significant. I would expect some loose correlation based on things like intelligence and personality traits, but I wouldn’t expect strong correlation except perhaps for rare occupations like professional athletes. Disclaimer: this is all fun speculation. I don’t even know if the traits I used as examples have been shown to have strong genetic heritability.