Now if you've gone to the doctor, often they'll measure your triaglyceride level as a measure of how healthy your liver is and how healthy your diet is.

现在如果你去看医生,他们通常会测你的甘油三酯水平,以此作为你的肝健康和饮食健康的指标

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Yes, it's a wonderfully reliable test I'll test you today; I'll test you tomorrow; I'll test you next year; I'll test you the day you die; I'll get the same IQ score ? Is it a valid test?

是的，这是个非常可靠的测试,今天测试，明天再测试;,明年再测，到你死的那天再测;,得出的你的智商都还是一样,但这是个有效测试吗？

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pV So there is an arbitrary set point that needs to be defined, right? Because what you actually measure in the lab are changes in enthalpy, just like what you measure when you look at energy change of some sort, you measure the change in energy, right.

焓也是一样，焓是U加,所以需要定义一个任意的设定值,对吧？因为实际上你在实验室里,测得的是焓的改变,就像你在研究某种能量变化时，所测量的那样，你测量的是能量的改变，对吧。

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But if we could statistically control for every other variable, all I'd need to do is measure the distance from your door to everybody else's door on campus and I could chart out who's going to fall in love with whom on the Yale campus.

如果我们能精确地控制其他可变因素，那么只需要测测距离,你宿舍门到其他宿舍门的距离,我就能够计算出,校园里谁爱上了谁。

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