And there's been some efforts cross-culturally, to go back to the question this young man asked before looking at cross-cultural differences in toilet training and weaning, which are really big differences, to see if they correspond in any interesting way to personality differences.

回到刚才那位同学提出的问题，确实也已经有些跨文化的研究试图探究,在如厕训练和断奶上的跨文化差异,这些差异是非常大的，而这些研究的目的，是为了看看这些跨文化上的差异,是否与人格差异存在着某种联系。

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It's a more powerful method than something called a cross-sectional study, and I'll come back in a later lecture and talk about these in more detail, but a cross-sectional study means you're taking a snapshot of a population of people at one time.

这种方法比所谓的横断面研究更加有效,我将在以后的课中,再仔细讨论这个问题,但横断面研究是指,你一次记录下一群人的状况

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