Ce test est surtout pour amener les étudiants à converser sur les résultats. Les critiques sont toutefois négative face à ce nouveau test. On craint que les étudiants aient une image négative de l’université qui soutiendrait la vente libre de tel kits en pharmacie.
L’homme derrière cet initiative est Jasper Rine, un professeur de génétique de la UC Berkeley. “Nous voulions choisir les gènes dont la variable est très facile à comprendre, qui ne soit pas menacante et qui offriraient aux étudiants de l’information à propos d’eux-mêmes dont ils connaissent déjà.”
On verra le semestre prochain si l’initiative a été mis au-devant…
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From now on, if you want to study at UC Berkeley, you may have to do a new voluntary test kit to be admitted: a genetic test. The university will sent test kits to 5,500 new students. However, even if as your first thought, you think it is to select people by their intelligence, it is more to see how their body react to alcohol, dairy products and folic acid.
This test is especially conceived to bring students to talk about the end result. Critics are particularly negative about this test. We fear that students will have a negative image about the university; it might send the message that the university is all for selling genetic test kits in drugstores.
The man behind this initiative is Jasper Rine, a UC Berkeley genetic professor. “We wanted to pick genes in which the variants were very easy to understand, not threatening, and probably reveal information students have about themselves already”
We will see if the new initiative will be offered next Fall semester…
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