Recently Read #5

I read an article in the New York Times about a new test that can tell parents what sports their small kids will be good at. A company called Genetics offers a test that cost 149$. It's simple, all they do is swab the inside of the kid's cheek for DNA, and then send it into a lab to get the ACTN3 analyzed, which is a gene. This test is supposed to tell if a kid could be better at speed and power sports (football/sprinting), or at endurance sports (distance running). This test is pretty accurate, but experts don't want people to depend on them. More research should be done, and these tests might not even affect anything. I think that parents shouldn't base everything their kids do off these tests, and kids should try everything to see what their best at, so that they have more experience and more fun.