" It doesn 't seem to work in the u.s. , " mr. mercier conceded .

mercier先生承认：“这理论在美国似乎行不通。”

Mercier and sperber argued that the explanation for why human reasoning is so poor isn 't because it 's deficient , but because we 've measured it against the wrong standard .

梅谢尔和斯佩贝尔在说到为什么人的逻辑推论能力那么低下时说，不是因为信息不足，而是因为我们使用了错误标准去衡量。