As the year ends, the author of a weekly column should look back and acknowledge the things he got wrong. I made at least one serious mistake. I wrote that if men think about sex on average every seven seconds, the average man last thought about sex three and a half seconds ago. I should have consulted the poet Wendy Cope, who wrote that: “Bloody men are like bloody buses – / You wait for about a year / And as soon as one approaches your stop / Two or three others appear”.
到了年底，每週發表一篇文章的專欄作家應當回顧這一年，承認自己的文章在哪些地方出過錯誤。我就至少出過一次嚴重的錯誤。我曾寫道，如果男人平均每7秒就想到一次性，那麼男人上一次想到性平均是在3.5秒之前（請見FT中文網2011年9月1日文章《統計數據的誤區》——譯者注）。我本該就此徵詢一下詩人溫迪•可普(Wendy Cope)的意見，因爲她曾寫過：「死男人們就像那些可惡的巴士，你一等就得等上將近一年，剛有一輛車靠站，其它幾輛就接二連三地來了。」
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