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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When I try and evaluate that expression of greater than, is going to go into the class to say greater than is a comp method.

这个大于的操作符的时候,是到类的定义里去识别，大于是一个比较的方法,那么让我在这里说仔细一点吧。

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A good, hygienic way of doing this is, not only do I not go in and change things except through a pre-defined method, I shouldn't read it other Cartesian than through a pre-defined method.

做这个的方式是，我不仅仅要通过提前定义好的方法,来改变数值,我还应该通过提前定义好的方法，来读这个值,我应该用。

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