"And if you need to predict human height in the near future to design a piece of equipment," Gordon says that by and large, "you could use today's data and feel fairly confident."

“如果你需要预测人类不久后的身高来设计一个设备的话，”戈登概括说，“你可以相当自信地使用当今的数据。”

youdao

The researchers found a causal linkage with a decline in average human height by nearly an inch during this period, and the century was rife with disease and conflict.

研究人员发现，这是造成这一时期人类平均高度下降将近一英寸的原因，而在这一百年中，瘟疫和战乱频繁发生。

youdao

They collected data on 14 variables, such as human height, the price of gold, tree ring width, and temperature from pre-industrial Europe between the years 1500 and 1800.

他们收集的数据涉及到14种变量，包括人类身高，黄金价格，树木年轮密度，以及欧洲工业化之前公元1500年到1800年之间的温度变化。

youdao

The overall correlation we arrived at between pay level and job satisfaction was just .15. (For comparison, the correlation between typical human height and weight is .44, and the correlation between IQ scores in identical twins is .86.) This suggests that within an organization, those who make more money are barely more satisfied than those who make much less.

FORBES: Will A Raise Make You Like Your Job Better? Maybe Not

And the panel expressed concern that techniques developed for therapeutic purposes could be used to enhance human characteristics such as height or memory.

BBC: Scientists oppose human gene modification

Consider, for example, the decades of production of a human growth hormone for below-average-height children by the National Pituitary Agency.

FORBES: Magazine Article