When Dr. Gottman really wants to assess whether a couple will stay together, he invites them to his island retreat for a much longer evaluation: two days, not two seconds.

如果戈特曼博士真的想要评估一对夫妇是否会在一起，他会邀请他们到他的岛上静修处进行一个更长的评估：持续两天，而不是两秒钟。

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In one study, Hanes showed that he could predict accurately whether subjects would press a button with their left or right hand seven seconds before they actually pressed it.

哈内斯在一项研究中证明，在受试者确实按动按钮之前七秒钟，他能够精确地预测他们会用左手还是右手按动按钮。

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In practice, users tend to take a few seconds between page requests, whether it be to read information on the panel, fill out a form, decide what to do next, and so on.

在实际中，在页面请求之间，用户往往需要花费几秒钟的时间，可能是在阅读面板上信息、填写表格、或者决定下一步该做什么，等等。

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It can predict whether a person will stop for just five seconds, 35 seconds, or more than a minute, with an accuracy of about 80%.

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After a few seconds it dies down and I ask Munar whether he expects to get a ticket today.

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But what they cannot say is whether this will happen in a sensible orderly way, or whether it will only happen five seconds before midnight, when markets are melting down.

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