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How about the next question? This is asking about what the average age is,
那么下一個問題呢？這是問關(guān)于年齡的中位數(shù)，
so the age at which half the population are younger and half the population are older.
也就是該地區(qū)大于和小于這個年齡的人口數(shù)相等。
And I thought 35 -- that sounds middle-aged to me.
我以為是35--那對我來說是中年。
Actually, in Exeter, it's incredibly young, and I had underestimated the impact of the university in this area.
實際上，在埃克塞特，結(jié)果是驚人的年輕，是我低估了大學(xué)在這個區(qū)域的影響。
The questions get harder as you go through. So this one's now asking about homeownership:
隨著測試的進行，問題的難度會增加。這個問題有關(guān)房屋所有權(quán)：
For every 100 households, how many are owned with a mortgage or loan?
在一百個家庭中，有多少個是有貸款或借債的？
And I hedged my bets here, because I didn't want to be more than 50 out on the answer.
我沒有直接選出腦海中的數(shù)字，因為我不想有超過五十個。
And actually, these get harder, these questions,
實際上，這些問題變得越來越困難，
because when you're in an area, when you're in a community, things like age -- there are clues to whether a population is old or young.
因為當你在一個地區(qū)，在一個社區(qū)，人口是否老齡化或是年輕化這樣的事情，是很容易找到線索的。
Just by looking around the area, you can see it.
看看周圍環(huán)境就知道了。
Something like homeownership is much more difficult to see,
像房屋所有權(quán)這樣的事要觀察起來就困難得多，
so we revert to our own heuristics, our own biases about how many people we think own their own homes.
所以我們還原了我們的啟發(fā)法，關(guān)于我們自認為有多少人擁有房屋所有權(quán)的偏差。
Now the truth is, when we published this quiz, the census data that it's based on was already a few years old.
然而真相是，當我們發(fā)表這個測試時，我們所依據(jù)的普查數(shù)據(jù)已經(jīng)是好幾年前的了。
We've had online applications that allow you to put in a post code and get statistics back for years.
我們有一個在線應(yīng)用，你可以輸入郵編，然后得到過去幾年的數(shù)據(jù)。
So in some senses, this was all a little bit old and not necessarily new.
所以，在某種程度上，這是有點兒過時的數(shù)據(jù)。
But I was interested to see what reaction we might get by gamifying the data in the way that we have,
但是我很感興趣會得到什么樣的反應(yīng)，用我們已有的方式去使數(shù)據(jù)游戲化，
by using animation and playing on the fact that people have their own preconceptions.
通過使用動畫以及利用人們會有先入之見這一事實。
It turns out, the reaction was, um ... was more than I could have hoped for.
結(jié)果是，反應(yīng)... 比我所期望的要好。
It was a long-held ambition of mine to bring down a statistics website due to public demand.
對我來說，運營數(shù)據(jù)網(wǎng)站需要持久的雄心，因為公眾有著龐大的需求。
