As you might imagine, I'm absolutely passionate about dance. 你们能想象到，我对舞蹈充满了热情。 I'm passionate about making it, about watching it, about encouraging others to participate in it, and I'm also really pas
And that wasn't a difficult diagnosis to make. 这不是一个困难的诊断。 I made it and I set to work treating her. 作出诊断后我开始着手帮她治疗。 I gave her aspirin. I gave her medications to relieve the strain on her heart. 我开给了
It's the Second World War. A German prison camp. 这是二战期间，一个德国集中营。 And this man, Archie Cochrane, is a prisoner of war and a doctor, and he has a problem. 这个人，阿奇·卡克伦，是战俘也是一名医生，他遇到了一个问题。 The problem is t
Well let me give you an example. 让我来给你们一个例子。 Imagine for a moment that, instead of Tim Harford in front of you, there was Hans Rosling presenting his graphs. 你们想象一下，现在如果站在你们面前的不是我，而是汉斯·罗斯林在展示他的图表。 You
That was fascinating. But how do you reconcile this idea of it being bad to think of someone as a "loser," 说的真好。你要如何与自己和解，把一个人称为失败者是糟糕的， with the idea that a lot of people like, of seizing control of
Now the technology around what the truth looks like is progressing on, the science of it. 现在的测谎技术正在日新月异地发展。 We know, for example, that we now have specialized eye trackers and infrared brain scans, 比如
And I'm going to imagine this, you can do this too if you like, that I'm going to just take the letter "T" and I'm going to imagine it in mind, 我会想象，如果喜欢你也可以这么做， 我只取这个字母“T"，我要在我的脑海中想象它的形状， and I'm goi
There are a million pictures that I could click through here, 我有上百万张照片可以展示， and had to choose carefully -- this is one of my favorites -- of students learning, 可我得小心的选择--好，这是我最喜欢的一张--学生正在学习的照片， of wha
Okay, what were the telltale signs? Well first we heard what's known as a non-contracted denial. 好，破绽是哪些呢？首先，我们听到一个正式的否定形式。 Studies show that people who are overdetermined in their denial will resort
It's probably as unlikely that you would nowadays become as rich and famous as Bill Gates, 今日你变得像比尔·盖茨一样，有钱又出名的机会， as it was unlikely in the 17th century that you would accede to the ranks of the Fren
The second characteristic component of regret is a sense of bewilderment. 后悔第二波就是困惑感。 So the other thing I thought about there in my bedroom that night was, "How could I have done that? What was I thi
And what I thought I'd do is, I'd make a TED premiere. 我想我要做的是，办一个TED首演。 I'm not sure if this is going to be good or not. I just be doing it. 我不知道能不能成功。只要试试看。我只是做做看。 I thought what I'd do is, I'd use
No, it is. You know why this place is amazing? 不，它就是。为什么这地方很神奇？ Because very few people here are afraid to fail. 因为这里几乎没有人 是害怕失败的。 And no one who gets on the stage, so far that I've seen, has not fail
So I signed the discharge papers, and an ambulance came, paramedics came to take her home. 我在出院单上签了名， 一辆救护车来后急救人员将她送回了家。 And I went back to my work on the wards. 之后我回到了我在诊所的工作。 All the rest of that da
I know those things that happened to you growing up. 我知道你从小到大的糗事。 I know you don't think that you're pretty, smart, talented or powerful enough. 我知道你也清楚自己不够漂亮，或者不够聪明或者不够有才或者不够强壮。 I know your dad never
My students produced these info-graphics 我的学生们制作了这些信息图表， as a result of a unit that we decided to do at the end of the year responding to the oil spill. 结果是我们决定以这个汇报作为我们学年的总结报告，内容是回应漏油事件。 I asked them
So how do organizations think? Well, for the most part, they don't. 那么这些组织是怎么想的呢？其实大多数情况下，他们是不思考的。 And that isn't because they don't want to, it's really because they can't. 这不是因为他们不想，而是因为他们无法思考。 And
I'm not even telling you the story because I think we should be running more carefully controlled randomized trials in all aspects of public policy, 我跟你说这个故事也不是因为我认为，我们在公共政策的各个方面，做随机抽样试验时，应该更小心， altho
So that's Johnny Depp, of course. And that's Johnny Depp's shoulder. 这是强尼·德普，很显然，这是他的肩膀。 And that's Johnny Depp's famous shoulder tattoo. Some of you might know that, in 1990, Depp got engaged to Wino
So before I get started, what I'm going to do is I'm going to clarify my goal for you, which is not to teach a game of Gotcha. 切入主题之前，我先澄清一下，我演讲的目的不是叫你们玩测谎游戏。 Liespotters aren't those nitpicky kids, t
