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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In fact, copycat crime is simply another form of imitation, which is one of the basic socials skills of humans that allows us to reap the benefits of other people's trial-and-error efforts.

事实上，模仿性犯罪仅仅是模仿的另一种形式，这是人类的基本社交技能，它能够使我们从其他人的努力尝试和错误的中获得利益。

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One of the most important points to understand is the fact that there are two basic forms of currency, money and time.

有一点很重要，我们应该明白事实上货币有两种基本形式：金钱和时间。

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The fact of the matter is that funding basic research is one of those jobs that government does better than the private sector.

FORBES: Eric Cantor, Science, And The Central Planning Fallacy