If there's a large standard deviation it would be spread.

如果标准偏差值很大,那么它就比较分散。

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You can't come up with a number to describe the twenty-five standard deviation event; it's just too large a number, I think, for any of us to really comprehend.

你根本无法想出一个数字,来描述这个偏离25倍标准差的事件,对我们普通人来说,这是个难以想象的天文数字

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So, the optimal thing to do if you live in a world like this n is to get n as large possible and you can reduce the standard deviation of the portfolio very much and there's no cost in terms of expected return.

如果现实中也这样简单的话,那么你就尽量增大,这样就能让投资组合的标准差,就会大大降低,从预期收益率的角度来看,这样做的成本是零。

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