"And what we found is that there was a large variability in outcome among centers, that ranged between and 60 percent at five years."

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But in fact, logically speaking at least, variability, although it's a requirement for unpredictability, doesn't guarantee unpredictability.

但实际上，至少在逻辑上讲，可变性虽然是不可预见性的必要条件，但是不可预见性却不是必然。

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Plus, there are some natural metabolic variability and I'll describe that in a subsequent lecture.

另外,这里面有自然的新陈代谢差异,我会在随后的课堂上讲解

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In addition to the inevitability, in addition to the variability, in addition to the unpredictability, there's the fact that death is, as I like to think of it, ubiquitous.

除了不可避免性之外，除了可变性之外，除了不可预知性之外，还有个事实便是死亡，是无处不在的，正如我所想的那样。

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He's come to the conclusion that over 90% of the variability of returns in institutional portfolios is attributable to asset allocation and that's the number that I think most people hear cited when they are looking at Roger Ibbotson's work.

他得出结论,机构投资中,超过90%的回报率变动,要归因于资产配置,我想这是罗格·伊博森的文章里面,被人引用得最多的结论

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As a consequence, there's a lot of variability and error in these dietary measurements.

结果就是,饮食测评中会有很多变数,和误差

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We tolerate a lot of variability in the concept sheets because this is your opportunity to be creative and to think about whatever you're reading or hearing the lecture that week, so there's no specific format to follow.

我们希望看到各式各样的观点报告,因为这样你们才有机会展示创造性,并对当周的课堂上所听到的,或者读到的内容进行相关思考,所以这里不用遵守特殊的格式要求

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In our world, not only do we have variability, we've got unpredictability.

在我们的世界不仅有可变性，还有不可预见性。

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But in keeping with the focus of our discussion about the badness of death, I want to put aside the moral question ? and think about how good or bad for me ? is it that there's variability in death?

但是为了重点讨论,死亡的坏处，我要撇开道德问题不谈,转而考虑这种情况对我是好是坏,如果死亡有可变性的话？

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You could take weights on people measured over a period of many years and look at the variability over time in weight and then link it to things like heart disease and cancer, and I'll come back later and talk about the results of that particular study.

我们还可以得到人们很长一段时间里,每年的体重数据,观察体重随着时间变化的变动,并将观察结果与心脏疾病和癌症联系起来,我等一下会告诉大家这项研究的结果

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