Social psychologists have amassed oceans of research into what they call the “above average effect”, or “illusory superiority”, and shown that, for example, 70% of us rate ourselves as above average in leadership, 93% in driving and 85% at getting on well with others – all obviously statistical impossibilities.
社会心理学家已经积累了大量关于他们称之为“高于平均水平效应”或“虚假优越感”的研究，并证明例如，70%的人认为自己在领导力方面高于平均水平，93%的人认为自己在驾驶方面高于平均水平，85%的人认为自己在与他人相处方面高于平均水平——显然这些都是统计上的不可能现象。
The journal Science is adding an extra round of statistical checks to its peer-review process, editor-in-chief Marcia McNutt announced today.
《科学》杂志主编玛尔西娅·麦克努特今天宣布，该杂志将在同行评审流程中增加一轮额外的统计检查。
Working with the American Statistical Association, the journal has appointed seven experts to a statistics board of reviewing editors (SBoRE).
该期刊与美国统计协会合作，已任命七位专家组成统计审稿编辑委员会（SBoRE）。
Most journals are weak in statistical review, and this damages the quality of what they publish.
大多数期刊在统计审查方面都很薄弱，这损害了它们所发表内容的质量。
I think that, for the majority of scientific papers nowadays, statistical review is more essential than expert review," he says, but he noted that biomedical journals such as Annals of Internal Medicine, the Journal of the American Medical Association and The Lancet pay strong attention to statistical review.
他说："我认为，如今大多数科学论文中，统计审查比专家审查更为重要。" 但他指出，像《内科年鉴》（Annals of Internal Medicine）、《美国医学会杂志》（Journal of the American Medical Association）和《柳叶刀》（The Lancet）这样的生物医学期刊非常重视统计审查。
例句取自历年考研英语真题，翻译为机器生成，仅供学习参考。