"Clearly the pictures are disturbing," "but what I would also say to people is that as I think members of the committee have correctly pointed out, pictures are a snapshot,all right, and what we will not do and what I will not do is make assumptions prior to the completion of our investigation.

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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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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

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选