and what empirically turns out to be more important.

几个经典分离之一
Alright well, there are very interesting studies that

那么有几项非常有意思的研究
have been done with physical attractiveness.

涉及到身体吸引力
At the university of Minnesota,

在明尼苏达大学
a computer algorithm paired people up.

有个电脑程序能够将人们配对
It couldn't have been a very complicated algorithm

这并不复杂
because it basically paired people up randomly on the campus.

因为它只是把学校里的人随机配对
but a lot of data about all the students on campus were collected

但这台电脑收集了许多在校生的数据
and people were then randomly paired up and sent to the dance.

然后这些学生被随机配对去参加舞会
And then they were tracked over time.

他们会被跟踪调查一段时间
And just as in the thought experiment I just gave you,

就和我之前讲的假想实验一样
the University of Minnesota students acted in the same way.

明尼苏达大学的学生们也是那样做的