Although rural-urban comparisons provide a convenient framework for analysis, the urban health goal is not simply to be better on average than rural areas.

将农村与城市进行比较可以提供一个好的框架，但城市健康的目标并不仅仅是比农村好。

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Furthermore, the evidence is overwhelming that higher expense funds do not, on average, perform better than lower expense funds.

此外，有证据表明，一般来说更多的基金费用并不能比少量基金费用的绩效更好。

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This represents a huge economic and social waste, and not only because South Korean women are better educated, on average, than their men.

这就意味着巨大的经济和社会浪费，不光是因为一般而言，韩国妇女比男性受到了更好的教育。

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Maybe on average institutions lose thirty basis points, but it's kind of Lake Wobegon, where we all believe that we're better than average, so we're going to overcome that thirty basis points -that's not such a big hurdle.

可能平均每个机构都会落后30个基点,这就有点像沃比冈湖效应,大家都觉得自己能高过市场平均水平,30个基点会赶上的,不算什么大的差距

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Fund of fund managers need to pick not just better-than-average funds to produce incremental return, but among the best, concludes Bernstein.

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Including dividends, mortgage REITs have eked out an average annual total return of 4.8% since 1971--not much better than the 4.5% inflation average.

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These include low cost index-tracking choices for those who do not think that they can pick a better-than-average investment manager.

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