And when experimenters record the time it takes game players to read "aggressive" or "non-aggressive" words from a list, can we be sure what they are actually measuring?

当实验者记录下游戏玩家从列表中阅读“攻击性”或“非攻击性”词汇所花的时间时，我们能确定他们实际上在测量什么吗？

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By measuring the proportion of heavier hydrogen and oxygen isotopes along a strand of hair, scientists can construct a geographic timeline.

通过测量一束头发上较重的氢和氧同位素的比例，科学家可以构建一个地理时间轴。

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By measuring the time required for a signal to travel between the satellites and the antenna, the car's location can be pinned down within 100 meters.

通过测量信号在卫星和天线之间传播所需的时间，汽车的位置可以被锁定在100米误差之内。

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Many minerals in the asbestos family can absorb light with a wavelength measuring two-point three micrometers.

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It can mean a measuring rod. And so it comes to be a list that accounts as authoritative in early Christianity.

量杆的意思，所以它是一列书目,它在早期基督教里是权威的。

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The second piece of information we need to know is what actually the kinetic energy is of the ejected electron, and that's something we can just measure by measuring its velocity.

其次，我们需要知道的信息是,出射电子的动能，这可以通过,测量它们的速度得到。

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One of the things that I always try to remember is that measuring percentages can lead to some strange arguments.

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Now, our telescopes and other measuring devices can see other galaxies, supernovae, and back all the way to the beginning of the universe, 13.7 billion years ago.

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Measuring perception alone can be misleading because people are often reluctant to confess their confusion.

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