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So the first thing that jumped out at the researchers when they looked at the results of the experiment was that between individuals, there were big differences in ANS proficiency.
研究人員在看實(shí)驗(yàn)結(jié)果時(shí)注意到的第一件事是，人與人之間存在著巨大的ANS熟練度差異。
Some subjects were consistently able to identify which group of dots was larger even if there was a small ratio, if the numbers were almost equal, like ten to nine.
一些實(shí)驗(yàn)對(duì)象能不斷辨認(rèn)出哪一組的圓點(diǎn)更多，即使只有很小的差距，即使數(shù)量幾乎相等，比如10個(gè)和9個(gè)。
Others had problems even when differences were relatively large, like twelve to eight.
其他人即使在差異相對(duì)較大的情況下也很難辨別出來，比如12個(gè)和8個(gè)
Now, maybe you are asking whether some 14-year-olds are just faster, faster in general, not just in math.
你也許要問一些14歲的孩子是不是總體上都反應(yīng)都更快一些，不僅只是在數(shù)學(xué)上。
It turns out: that’s not so. We know this because the 14-year-olds had previously been tested in a few different areas.
結(jié)果顯示不是這樣的，我們知道這一點(diǎn)是因?yàn)檫@些14歲的孩子之前已經(jīng)在好幾種不同的領(lǐng)域被測(cè)試過了。
For example, as 8-year-olds, they’d been given a test of rapid color naming.
比如說，在8歲時(shí)，他們接受了一個(gè)快速說出顏色的測(cè)試。
That’s a test to see how fast they could identify different colors.
那是個(gè)看看他們能多快辨認(rèn)出不同顏色的測(cè)試。
But the result didn’t show a relationship with the results of the ANS test.
但是結(jié)果并沒有顯示和ANS測(cè)試的結(jié)果有關(guān)系。
The ones who were great at rapidly naming colors when they were eight years old weren’t necessarily good at the ANS test when they were fourteen.
那些8歲時(shí)能非常快速地說出顏色的名字的人，14歲時(shí)在ANS測(cè)試中表現(xiàn)不一定好。
And there was no relationship between ANS ability and skills like reading and word knowledge.
而且ANS能力和像閱讀與文字知識(shí)這樣的能力也沒有關(guān)系。
But among all the abilities tested over those years, there was one that correlated with the ANS results: math, symbolic math achievement.
但是那些年測(cè)試過的所有能力中，有一個(gè)和ANS結(jié)果有關(guān)聯(lián)，那就是數(shù)學(xué)，符號(hào)數(shù)學(xué)成就。
And this answered the researchers’ question.
而這就解答了研究人員的疑問。
They were able to correlate learned mathematical ability with ANS.
他們可以把習(xí)得的數(shù)學(xué)能力和ANS聯(lián)系起來。
