We did a study using the Framingham data ourselves several --some years ago where we were interested in the issue of weight cycling.

几年前我们用弗明汉研究的数据做过研究,我们对体重循环这个问题很感兴趣

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But you can imagine the inability to do that in a big population study with thousands and thousands of subjects, so we have to rely on data like this.

但你们可以想象在一个大样本研究中,不可能对数以千计的研究对象做这种培训,所以我们需要依靠像这样的数据

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Fine. But there are reasons to study development even if you are not interested in children because sometimes developmental studies and developmental data and developmental science can inform questions about adults.

没关系,但即使你对儿童不感兴趣,却依然有很多原因促使你去研究发展,因为发展的研究,数据以及科学,有时可以解释成人的问题

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Well, unlike the choosiness studies, here we actually have some pretty good cross-cultural data So one study, for instance, was done in 10,000 people from thirty-seven countries, ?" asking people, "Who do you want to be with?"

与伴侣选择标准研究不同，我们事实上有一些很好的跨文化数据,例如，有一个调研,以来自37个国家的1万个人为调研对象，问他们“你最想和谁在一起“

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