英国卫报:你还在相信统计数据吗?(14)

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What is most politically significant about this shift from a logic of statistics to one of data is how comfortably it sits with the rise of populism.
这种从统计逻辑向数据逻辑的转变最具政治意义的地方在于：它和民粹主义的崛起相去甚远。

Populist leaders can heap scorn upon traditional experts, such as economists and pollsters, while trusting in a different form of numerical analysis altogether.
民粹主义领导人可以对经济学家和民意调查专家等传统专家嗤之以鼻，却完全相信另一种形式的数字分析。

Such politicians rely on a new, less visible elite, who seek out patterns from vast data banks, but rarely make any public pronouncements, let alone publish any evidence.
这些政客依赖于一个新的、不那么引人注目的精英阶层，他们从庞大的数据库中寻找规律，但很少发表公开声明，更不用说发布什么证据了。

These data analysts are often physicists or mathematicians, whose skills are not developed for the study of society at all.
这些数据分析师通常是物理学家或数学家，他们的技能根本不适合用来研究社会。

This, for example, is the worldview propagated by Dominic Cummings, former adviser to Michael Gove and campaign director of Vote Leave.
例如，下面是迈克尔·戈夫的前顾问、“脱欧”运动负责人多米尼克·卡明斯所宣扬的世界观，

"Physics, mathematics and computer science are domains in which there are real experts, unlike macro-economic forecasting," Cummings has argued.
他认为：物理、数学和计算机科学领域有真正的专家，宏观经济预测领域则没有。”

Figures close to Donald Trump, such as his chief strategist Steve Bannon and the Silicon Valley billionaire Peter Thiel,
和唐纳德·特朗普关系密切的人物，比如他的首席策略师史蒂夫·班农和硅谷亿万富翁彼得·蒂尔，

are closely acquainted with cutting-edge data analytics techniques, via companies such as Cambridge Analytica, on whose board Bannon sits.
都通过班农担任董事会成员的剑桥分析公司等公司来熟知尖端的数据分析技术。

During the presidential election campaign, Cambridge Analytica drew on various data sources to develop psychological profiles of millions of Americans,
在总统竞选期间，剑桥分析公司利用各种数据来源开发了数百万美国人的心理档案，

This ability to develop and refine psychological insights across large populations is one of the most innovative and controversial features of the new data analysis.
这种在大量人群中发展和完善心理学洞察力的能力是新数据分析最具创新性和争议性的特征之一。

As techniques of "sentiment analysis", which detect the mood of large numbers of people by tracking indicators such as word usage on social media,
“情绪分析”技术通过追踪社交媒体上的用词等指标来探测大量人群的情绪，

become incorporated into political campaigns, the emotional allure of figures such as Trump will become amenable to scientific scrutiny.
随着“情绪分析”技术被纳入政治竞选，像特朗普这样的人物的情感诱惑将会受到科学的审视。

In a world where the political feelings of the general public are becoming this traceable, who needs pollsters?
在一个公众的政治情绪变得如此可追踪的世界里，谁还需要民意测验专家呢？

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1.be acquainted with 了解

A translator must be well acquainted with the target language.

一个好的译者必须很熟悉目标语言ULHif]32eu;cvCR。

2.cutting-edge 先进的，尖端的

Hundreds of journals churn out learned articles on cutting-edge research.

成百上千的杂志刊登前沿研究学术论文@9C@YPzu=K!。

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