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In one study, children who were growing up in poverty were almost a year behind the richer children on educational tests, and that was by the age of just three.

The data showed that children who were reading for pleasure at the ages of five and 10 were more likely to go on in school better, on average, on school tests later in their lives.

And not just tests of reading, but tests of spelling and maths as well.

This study tried to control for all the confounding factors, so it looked at children who were equally intelligent and from the same social-class background, so it seemed as if it was the reading which really helped those children go on and score better on those school tests later in their lives.

They said, "Why don't you run some crash tests?"

So we actually tried to commission some crash tests.

And as defined by the World Health Organization, screening is "the presumptive identification of unrecognized disease in an apparently healthy person, by means of tests ... that can be applied rapidly and easily ..." That's a long definition, so let me repeat it: identification of unrecognized disease in an apparently healthy person by means of tests that can be applied both rapidly and easily.

Obviously, there's a variety of medical tools available to perform screening tests.

We have all had such tests.

With all of these features, breath analysis is predestined to deliver what many traditional screening tests are lacking.

Then, in order to keep costs down, the number of tests needs to be restricted, and this means (a) that the tests can only be performed on a narrow part of the population, for example, the high-risk population; and (b) that the number of tests per person needs to be kept at a minimum.

Multimeasure tests really aren't anything new, but they used to be really expensive and required a PhD sitting across from you and answering lots of questions and writing reports.

What if we could take multimeasure tests and make them scalable and accessible, and provide data to employers about really what the traits are of someone who can make them a good fit for a job?

They do worse in tests afterwards, after the teaching.

We design tests, or at least in Britain, so that people pass them.

We were just doing some tests here.

Tests have shown.

It can be sales; it can be you got an award for something; it can be people have done it before; it can be your beta tests are going great, whatever.

So we're currently doing clinical tests, and if these clinical tests commence and our data holds up, we might be able at some point to take this kind of technology and take it out of the Stanford clinic and bring it to the entire world, places where Stanford doctors never, ever set foot.

We do quick neuropsychological screening tests to identify strengths and weaknesses in the way an inmate thinks.

In fact, a child living with poverty is likely to perform worse on tests of language and impulse control before they even turn two.

Naturally, they blew up a shack, and Caltech, well, then, hey, you go to the Arroyo and really do all your tests in there.

If we are doing entry, we have to do tests of parachutes.

So we have to do all kinds of tests.

You can do tests that show that you'll remember that I was talking about a chair a couple of days later a lot better.

So building it, of course, more failures: mirrors that failed, scratched mirrors that had to be remade; cooling system failures, an entire system that had to be remade; calibration failures, we ran tests again and again and again and again; failures when you literally least expect them: we had an adorable but super angry baby falcon that landed on our spectrograph tank one day.

In this scenario, a study tests a new drug for a rare, fatal disease.

Swedish firm Uppsala Biomedical, more seriously, makes a mobile phone add-on that can process blood tests in the field, uploading the data, displaying the results.

But what's great about it, from the tests that have been done, is, if you don't want to hear it, you take about one step to the side and you don't hear it.

Instead of testing how you take in and retain information, like an IQ test might, it tests how you manipulate information, given a constraint, in order to achieve a specific goal.

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