Why You Fear the Unknown — and What It Can Teach You | Maya Shankar and Simone Stolzoff | TED

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   And fascinatingly, they found that people in the second group, people who had a fifty percent chance, were far more anxious and stressed than people in the hundred percent chance group.

   令人着迷的是，他们发现第二组的人，即那些有百分之五十几率的人，比百分之百几率组的人更加焦虑和紧张。

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   So somehow we would rather a certain bad thing happen to us than have to deal with the ambiguity of not being sure.

   所以不知何故，我们宁愿确定的坏事发生在我们身上，也不愿面对不确定性的模糊状态。

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   I'm curious, from your perspective, what are the implications of a study like this?

   我很好奇，从你的角度来看，这类研究有什么启示？

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   What does it say about our societal or our individual ability to navigate what we don't know?

   它揭示了我们社会或个人在应对未知事物方面的能力如何？

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   Yeah, I mean, I think it makes so much sense that we as humans, you know, evolved to be this way.

   是的，我的意思是，我认为这非常合理，我们人类，你知道的，进化成了这样。

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