"Sixty percent." "Can we extrapolate from that, if there's 90 or even 85 percent of the folks that are on this chart here, that have not been polygraphed that, maybe 60 percent of them might not pass the polygraph if they took the test?" "We and others have done that analysis,senator, and have reached the same conclusion."

VOA: standard.2010.03.11

Isn't it enough for me to extrapolate from cases that I do come up against in this life?

难道仅仅依靠我这辈子碰到的东西,不足以使我推断出来吗

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And the other thing you can do is take self reports like the ones you're doing, hopefully do enough of them, and a random enough sample of the population, that you can extrapolate from that sample to the whole population, and try to estimate what people are eating in that way.

还有其他可以做的,比如大家正在做的这种个体调查,希望能把它做的充分些,如果有充足的随机样本,就可以从样本推断出,整个总体,从而推断哪类人有这样的饮食习惯

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