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If you have paraskevidekatriaphobia, today is not your day. That’s right, paraskevidekatriaphobia is fear of Friday the 13th and the accidents, mishaps and misfortunes thought by some to occur on that day. But is there anything really to fear?
如果你相信每月13號星期五（paraskevidekatriaphobia）是個厄運號的話，那今天（4月13號星期五）可不是個好日子。的確，對paraskevidekatriaphobia持相信態度的人對每月13號星期五很害怕，他們覺得交通事故、不幸和災難往往會發生在那一天。這是真的嗎？
In fact, a study was conducted and published back in 1993 in the British Medical Journal that looked at hospital admissions due to accidents on one Friday the 13th compared with the previous Friday the 6th. Theresearchers tracked traffic on a highway in one area and found that many fewer cars were on the road on the 13th. Perhaps due to people being leery of driving on that day.
事實上，1993年的《英國醫學雜志》發表了一項研究結果。這項研究對13號星期五的交通事故入院率同6號星期五的交通事故入院率做了比較。研究人員對某一地區的高速公路進行了跟蹤，發現很少有私家車在13號上路。或許是由于人們對那天抱有戒心。
But hospital admissions in that area due to traffic accidents was actually higher. Forty-five people were admitted on the 6th but 65 people were admitted on the 13th.
但該地區因交通意外而住院的人確實較往常更多。6號入院45人，而13號則有65人。
The researchers concluded that a few people were indeed unlucky. On that Friday the 13th. In that part of England. Then again, what you really needed for this study was a control group that stays home, only to slip in the bathtub.
研究人員得出結論：有些人確實不走運——就是13號星期五英格蘭地區的那幾個人。話又說回來，要真正完成這一研究你還真需要一個實驗參照組，實驗人員都呆在家，但不料竟在浴缸里滑倒。
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