So we have only their bones, or fossils,to study.

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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

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

Way back in nineteen-eighty-two, we did a study on this, and then I'm going to show you some similar studies that have been done in subsequent years to show you how much the error is.

回到1982年,我们做了一个这样的实验,你们将看到一些类似的实验,是在随后几年中做的,向你们证明误差有多大

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

Suppose you hate development; you hate developmental psychology; you hate babies; you hate children; they're not cute; they're ugly; you don't want to have them; you don't want to study them; you're annoyed that we have to discuss them.

假设你讨厌发展,讨厌发展心理学,讨厌婴儿,讨厌儿童,他们不可爱,他们很丑陋,你不想有孩子,也不想去研究他们,你对我们探讨儿童觉得厌烦

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

The reason why we need positive psychology is to shift the pendulum from the 21:1 ratio that we have today: for every one study on depression or anxiety, we have 21 studies on-- sorry, for one study on happiness or wellbeing, we have 21 studies on depression and anxiety.

我们需要积极心理学是为了改变,现在的21比1这个比率：,每有一项关于抑郁或焦虑的研究，就有21项，对不起，应该是每有一项关于快乐或幸福的研究，就有21项关于抑郁或焦虑的研究。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

So did you approach Professor Katz and say "we have this idea we really would like to promote"? At least a discussion and the academic study of what it looks like.

那你是主动联系Katz教授,跟他说，我有这样一个想法,我们很想推行么？，至少讨论,并且做了学术上的研究，了解课程的内容。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

It's really remarkable how far--how fast we have come from just knowing the structure of this molecule to be able to manipulate it and study it in great detail.

我们在短时间内取得了非凡的成就,从最初仅仅知道DNA分子的结构,发展到能够深入研究并加以操控它

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