The test that predicts how well a child will be able to read

Sounds like science fiction, but in reality it does come really close to a crystal  ball:

Neurobiologist Nina Kraus believes she and her team at Northwestern University have found a way — a half-hour test — to predict kids’ literacy skill long before they’re old enough to begin reading.

When I first read the study in the journal PLOS Biology, two words came to mind: science fiction.

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