Arguably, Freud fails the test because Freudian theory is often so vague and flexible that it can't really be tested in any reliable way.

可以肯定的是，弗洛伊德的理论无法得到验证,因为精神分析理论的内容,太过模糊又太易变通,你无法通过任何可靠的方式,去验证它的正确性。

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It makes sense when you hear it but it's the sort of finding that's been validated over and over again with animals and nonhumans.

这听上去很有道理,不过这个发现已经在动物,以及非人类身上得到了反复的验证。

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I'm checking that I didn't leave my program because I didn't find an answer. Well this is a good thing, it's better than my program running forever, but it's a bad thing because I don't have it the square root of 0.25.

我对计数器要做个验证,因为我不会没得到答案就退出程序,好，这其实是个好事,因为它不会让我的程序永远跑下去，但这也是件坏事因为,我没得到0。25的平方根。

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A theory could be so vague and all-encompassing that it can't even be tested.

一个理论有可能因为概念模糊,且体系庞大而难以得到验证。

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And these case studies have happened over history.

这些个案研究曾在历史上得到多次验证

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And that idea was, we make a guess in the middle, we test it so this is kind of a guess and check, and if the answer was too big, then we knew that we should be looking over here. If it was too small, we knew we should be looking over here, and then we would repeat.

这些有理数是有序排列的,然后我们的想法是,首先在中间取个数作为猜想数，然后对这个猜想数进行验证，如果由猜想数得到的答案太大,我们知道应该跳过，比猜想数大的那个区间，如果太小的话。

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