And that's because it's easier to test small things than big things. And it's easier to debug small things than big things.

这是因为对小一点的对象,进行测试比对大一点的对象进行测,试要简单多了，调试也是如此。

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All right, so we've tested it, and we haven't tested it yet we have tested it but, we haven't seen it, well, you know what I'm going to do?

好，我保存下，这有点儿烦，不过能让字体更大点儿,好，我们已经得到了要比较的对象了，但是还没对它们进行比较测试？

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It turns out, to a tremendous degree, and you could imagine yourself in that situation, they choose this one, the one that wasn't the one they turned down.

结果发现，非常大的程度上，你们也可以想象实验对象是你自己，他们选了这一粒，不是他们第一次没选的那粒。

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But you can imagine the inability to do that in a big population study with thousands and thousands of subjects, so we have to rely on data like this.

但你们可以想象在一个大样本研究中,不可能对数以千计的研究对象做这种培训,所以我们需要依靠像这样的数据

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Let's say you get ten thousand people in a large study.

假设一项大的研究中有一万个调查对象

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