Can you imagine a study of relationships throughout human history ? that focuses on the average?

你能想象,对整个人类历史上的恋爱关系进行研究,并求平均值吗？

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It could be normal, everything, that would be a Gaussian, where if you recall there was a mean, and a standard deviation, and most values were going to be close to the mean.

可能是正态分布，也就是高斯分布，只要有平均值和标准偏差值，你就可以进行调用，大部分的值都是集中在平均值附近的。

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My favorite way to measure the results is actually to compare what Yale achieved with what we would have had if we would have just experienced average returns over the past twenty years.

在衡量成绩时,我喜欢的做法是,将过去20年耶鲁模式下获得的资产,与市场平均收益率计算的资产,进行比较

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