One is what we talked about before regarding first impressions, which is a confirmation bias.

其中一个就是我们之间谈第一印象是，讲到的确认偏向。

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So, this very simple example is that-- is the confirmation bias.

举个很简单的例子-,“确认偏向”

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Again and again and again he quotes Levi-Strauss in confirmation of his own arguments, only then in a way to turn on him by pointing out that there is something even in what he's saying there that he hasn't quite thought through.

他一遍又一遍地引用列维，斯特劳斯的观点,来支持自己论点，在批驳其论点时也只是指出,他在某点上,考虑不够全面。

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This is incredibly important because if you picture having a double bond in a very large molecule, you could have all sorts of other atoms off this way and all sorts of other atoms off this way, and you can picture the shape would be very different if you have one confirmation versus another confirmation.

这是十分重要的,因为如果你想象在一个大分子里有一个双键，你可以在这里有各种各样的其它原子,在这里也有各种各样的其它原子，你可以想象一个构型,和另外一个构型之间的形状差别是非常大的。

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I'm reminded of the confirmation screen here and that's not too bad, then we put in the card and we click confirm and then finally we see the swap Then finally literally nine steps later the ticket comes out of the machine and then, frankly, had to go through the process of where to put the ticket in the machines.

这里出现了确认画面,那还不是太坏，然后我们把卡插进去,点击确认，然后我们看到了那个,函数。，swap，function。,【笑声】然后最终经过9个步骤,票从机器中出来了，然后，需要找出从哪里,把票放到机器中去。

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They might matter a lot because humans have, in general, a confirmation bias such that once you believe something other information is then encoded along the likes to support what you believe.

可能是因为人…,所有人都有确认偏向,也就是说，一旦你相信了某件事,其他信息都会被你解读成,支持你所相信的信息。

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