Defenders of telepathy point out that demanding impressive evidence from every study ignores one basic statistical fact: it takes large samples to detect small effects.

心灵感应的辩护者指出，要求每一项研究都有令人印象深刻的证据，这忽略了一个基本的统计事实：需要大量的样本才能检测到微小的影响。

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It's a statistical fact that almost one out of two containers doesn't reach its destination on time.

根据统计数字，几乎二分之一的集装箱不能准时抵达目的地。

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But I can see no reason why the simple statistical fact that there are going to be a great many more teenagers in the next few years should be cause for anything more than the usual alarm.

但是我看不出几年之内青少年要大量增加这个事实有什么理由使我们要比平常更加紧张。

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That is a statistical fact.

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At medical schools, pharma companies, and even at the FDA, biostatisticians and clinical researchers recognize that retrospective data when treated with appropriate bias-controlling statistical methods, can in fact be reliable, particularly as it points to direction of influence and the general magnitude of effect.

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However, this could merely be a statistical fluke that results from the fact that to date only a few score of Higgs candidate events have been observed amongst billions of particle collisions.

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