There is, as Robert Rubin, the treasury secretary, says, a "disjunction" between the mass of business anecdote that points to a leap in productivity and the picture reflected by the statistics.

正如美国财长罗伯特·鲁宾所言，在指向生产率飞跃的大量商业轶事与统计数据所反映的情况之间存在着“脱节”。

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Descriptive statistics is a tool for describing or summarizing or reducing to comprehensible form the properties of an otherwise unwieldy mass of data.

描述统计学就是这样一个工具，它对极其庞杂的数据进行描述、概括或删减，使其变成能为人理解的东西。

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Professor Greg Laughlin came up with the figure by calculating the sum of the planet's age, size, temperature, mass and other vital statistics – and Earth came out as the most expensive.

这位名为格雷格‧劳克林的教授称计算时所涉及的参数包括天体的年代、大小、温度、品质等多项重要因素，结果发现地球是所有天体中最“贵”的。

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Marx, the son of a former Harvard statistics professor, grew up in Cambridge, Mass.

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Six of the Golden State's metropolitan areas were in the top 10 nationwide, and the Los Angeles-Long Beach area ranked No. 1 with 15, 005 workers axed in mass firings in the quarter, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, which reports instances of employers who let go more than 50 workers in a quarter.

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Promptly gold reassumed its primacy of place in the U.S. currency system, and for the next 17-year run, till 1913 and the creation of the Federal Reserve, growth was 3.4% per year. 5.5% for pushing two decades, then 3.4% for pushing two decades, under gold auspices: these are the statistics of not merely success, but the most phenomenal push into mass prosperity that the world had ever seen.

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