Thousands of people need to be tested and monitored for years to build up an accurate picture of what sort of metabolic patterns could make people ill.

需要几年时间检验并追踪观察上千人以逐步绘制一幅精确图象――什么样的代谢图谱可以致病。

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Watching a video of the finger-tapping task led to faster and more accurate first attempts at the target sequence only when study participants slept within 12 hours of the video, before being tested.

研究发现只有当研究参与者在测试前在观看12小时的视频时睡着时，观看一段手指敲击任务的视频能导致在首次尝试特定顺势的敲击时更快且更精确。

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He described the probabilities associated with a breast cancer test: one percent of women tested have the disease, and the test is 90 percent accurate, with a nine percent false positive rate.

他将概率与乳腺癌测试关联起来：1%的女子测试出得癌症，测试在90%的情况下为准确，但有9%的错误判对率。

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To make sure there are no surprises post-construction, models of tall buildings and those surrounding it are sometimes tested inside mathematically accurate wind tunnels, meant to replicate conditions in the real world.

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Thousands of people need to be tested and monitored for years to build up an accurate picture of what sort of metabolic patterns could make people ill.

ECONOMIST: Metabolomics

While a lot of this is entertaining, we rarely get what we need out of all this, which is an accurate review of a gadget that's been tested under real world situations.

ENGADGET: Let the polarized reviewing begin!