President Obama and 18 members of his national security team spent about three hours in the White House Situation Room Wednesday, assessing their Afghanistan policy.

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A lot of sciences rest on data that is flawed in some ways because of the difficulties in assessing what people eat.

许多依赖数据的科学常识是有瑕疵的,由于评估人类所吃食物非常困难

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

There are really two purposes in us doing this: one was so you can get a fix on your own eating, and second you can see the challenges that are involved in assessing what people eat when you start doing studies linking diet to health.

这么做实际上有两个目的,一是你可以调整你自己的饮食,二是当你开始研究,饮食与健康的关系时,你会发现,在对人们吃什么进行评估时存在很多困难

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选