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Yep, the men. Twice as often? Three times? Try five times as often.
是的，男人。概率是兩倍？還是三倍？甚至達到了5倍。
Men dominated the social space that didn't clearly belong to either person.
男人支配著不明確屬于任何人的社會空間。
Adjusting the experiment to only include people of equal size, that number dropped. But the men still took the arm rest three times as often as the women.
把實驗調整到參與人數體型相近的時候，這個數字下降了。但是占據扶手的男人的數量任然是女人的三倍。
In post-flight interviews, 68 percent of the men said they were bothered when the other person took the armrest, while only 42 percent of the women felt annoyed.
在飛行之后的采訪中，68%的男人稱當其他人占據扶手的時候他們會感到煩惱，只有42%的女人會有同樣的感受。
Men under forty reported the strongest irritation.
對于40歲以下的男人這種刺激反應最為強烈。
So... are all men just pushy cads? Well, one can debate what these data show. But this much is clear: that little strip of plastic is a mini-battleground.
所以，所有的男人都這么有好勝心嗎？當然，你可以對這些數據提出異議。但是這多少能表明，對這個小小的塑料制品的爭奪也是一個小小的戰場。
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