so that means that hidden in there is the idea that these people who are creating these statistics are costing us all a lot of money.

这里隐含的一个观点是,这些统计数据代表的人们,花费了国家大量的资金

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Then when we look at the statistics, all we see are a lot of assets in the fund that performed well and the underperforming fund that was merged out of existence isn't there anymore.

于是当我们去查阅统计资料时,只能看到资产规模巨大且运作良好的基金,那些运作不佳的基金,随着合并与它的纪录一起消失了

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