So the system is not foolproof." "But overall,it is in our view, the better system than anywhere else in the world because it gives average citizens an opportunity to listen to the evidence and make independent judgments the government is not part of."

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The second one is, you're terrific, you are better than average in every possible way, each one of you.

第二个发现是自我感觉良好，你不管在什么方面都比一般人优秀，你们每个人都这样认为。

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I can get better grades and you know, better average rather than going different uni, so.

我可以得到更好的成绩，中等偏上，比去其他大学要好。

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Roughly half of you are doing better than average and roughly half of you are doing worse than average.

大约有一半同学学得比别人好,有一半同学学得比别人差。

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Maybe on average institutions lose thirty basis points, but it's kind of Lake Wobegon, where we all believe that we're better than average, so we're going to overcome that thirty basis points -that's not such a big hurdle.

可能平均每个机构都会落后30个基点,这就有点像沃比冈湖效应,大家都觉得自己能高过市场平均水平,30个基点会赶上的,不算什么大的差距

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And the Lake Wobegon effect in psychology involves a systematic bias to see ourselves as better than average.

心理学上的乌比冈效应是说人都会,偏心地认为自己比一般人优秀。

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They will view themselves as better than average when asked how good they are as a student, as a teacher, as a lover, and particularly, as a driver.

他们认为自己比一般人做得好,不管是学生，老师，爱人都一样，尤其是司机。

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It turns out though that people will systematically and dramatically view themselves view themselves as better than average.

但是结果发现,人们都会过高地高估了自己,认为自己比一般人做得好。

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For a driver, for instance, when I ask you to rank how good you are as a driver, what people often do is they think--they say, "I'm better than average," but what they do is they focus on one aspect of their driving.

例如，拿司机来说，当我叫人们给自己的开车技术打个分时，人们通常会认为，“我比一般人好”,但其实他们只看到了开车的一个方面。

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