This refers to random variables that have fat-tailed distributions-- random variables that occasionally give you really big outcomes.

这就表示,服从长尾分布的随机变量,这些数据出现极端值的概率比较大

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We're going to assume these are the correct numbers and we're going to see if that even split is really a good idea or not.

我们假设这些数据都是准确无误的,我们来分析一下意见如此分布的原因

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