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你家养宠物吗？养的是喵星人还是汪星人？或者，你只是一个“云养猫/狗”爱好者？ 之前有研究称，养宠物有利于家庭幸福，而且还对宠物主人的事业有帮助。最近又有科学研究证实，养狗人士比养猫人士幸福感更强。 In 2018, the General Social Survey for the first time included a battery of questions on pet ownership. The findings not only quantified the nation’s pet population — nearly 6 in 10 households have at least one —they made it possible to see how pet ownership overlaps with all sorts of factors of interest to social scientists. 2018年，美国《综合社会调查》首次纳入一系列关于饲养宠物的问题。其研究结果量化了美国的宠物数量——将近60%家庭至少拥有一只宠物，也使人们得以一窥饲养宠物与社会学家关心的各种因素之间有哪些交集。 a battery of：一连串，一系列 overlap[əʊvə'læp]：vi.部分重叠；部分的同时发生 Like happiness. 比如幸福感。 For starters, there is little difference between pet owners and non-owners when it comes to happiness, the survey shows. The two groups are statistically indistinguishable on the likelihood of identifying as “very happy” (a little over 30 percent) or “not too happy” (in the mid-teens). 调查显示，首先，养宠物的人与不养宠物的人在幸福感方面几乎毫无区别。在统计学上，这两个组别在认定自己“非常幸福”的比例（略超过30%）或“不太幸福”的比例（15%左右）方面，几乎没有区别。 | 
