That one little stick lets you ask a question, perform a controlled experiment, and then analyze the results to check your original hypothesis.

那个小小的试纸让你问一个问题，实行一个制式化的实验，分析结果来验证你的假设。

And we could temper the pressure to find big results by publishing more papers that fail to confirm the original hypothesis, an event that happens far more than current scientific literature suggests.

我们可以通过发表更多未能证实最初假设的论文来缓解寻找重大成果的压力，这种情况发生的次数远远超过当前科学文献所暗示的。