So I learned to live, by the great laws, and these little rules of thumb.

因此，我学会了生活，并遵循着伟大的定律与这些琐碎的经验法则。

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I tried to show a lot of examples to illustrate some of the tradeoffs involved and to support my rules of thumb.

我尝试用一些示例来说明涉及到的权衡因素，并试图通过这些示例来论证我的经验性规则。

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Rules of thumb are useful, but one should never be afraid tobreak them.

经验是有用的，但是不要惧怕打破既有的经验。

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"It is sadly one of those rules-of-thumb numbers that everyone in the industry uses, " she says.

WSJ: Who Makes the Call at the Mall, Men or Women?

One of the problems that I think is plaguing the modern economics and political economy discussion is that as economics professors we have mistakenly ingrained into our students some rules-of-thumb that are coming back to haunt us.

FORBES: How to Grow an Economy

Appropriate for a species that is both predator and prey, System One lives in a world of snap judgments, extensible metaphors, ill-informed biases, and loosely constructed rules of thumb.

FORBES: Thinking Fast, Slow And Not At All