选票刚一统计好，电话就响了。

Scarcely had the votes been counted, when the telephone rang.

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好的统计分析在决策者注意到之前很早就可以得到微小的系统信号，例如芯片生产中、电话欺骗中或者消费者购买模式中的信号。

Good statistical analysis can pick up tiny systematic signals in, for example, chip production, or telephone fraud, or consumer buying patterns, long before decision-makers would notice a trend.

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在电子邮件是交流的默认方式之前，这是十分落后的，我清晰的记得我与其中一个精通统计的合作者的这么一个电话，谈的是关于数据都显示了什么。

This was back before E-mail was the default mode of communication, and I vividly remember a phone conversation I had with one of my statistically-savvy collaborators about what the data showed.

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