What this means in the insurance context is that if you offer insurance policies you will tend to attract people who are higher risk.

保险中选择性偏差的意思是,如果你提供某个险种,吸引的是承受该险种风险较大的人群

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There are also interesting breakdowns by gender, and so if we look at the males and the females on the left here, you see that the females have a higher risk of consequences if they have metabolic syndrome then the males do.

不同性别患代谢综合征的情况也有差异,左边两个柱子分别代表男性和女性,可以看出患代谢综合征的女性的患病风险,比男性患者要高

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And so it's usually the case that you can get a higher return if you're willing to take more risk.

同样很常见的例子是,所以如果你愿意冒高风险,你可能就会有高回报。

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In fact, different people might make different choices about how much risk they're willing to bear to get a higher expected return.

事实上，为了获得高的预期收益率,人们愿意承受的风险,也会不同。

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Other people might say, well you know, I'm really an adventurer--I don't care too much about risk-- I want the much higher return.

其他的人可能会说，你知道的，我就是一个投机商我不怎么在乎风险-,我只想要更高的收益。

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So when you put together the race risk that was highest if-- you may remember in the Mexican-Americans, and with the gender risk, higher rates in women, you'd expect the rates to be especially high in Mexican-American women, and in fact, that's what you find.

将有最高患病风险的种族,记得是墨西哥裔美国人,结合患病风险较高的女性,我们会预想墨西哥裔女性,患病的风险会特别高,而事实上这也是研究得到的结果

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