Nassim Nicholas Taleb: the field of statistics is based on something called the law of large Numbers: as you increase your sample size, no single observation is going to hurt you.

塔勒布：统计学学科的基础建立在所谓大量数字的规则性上：只要你增大样本容量，没有任何单个的观测结果能损害到你的理论。

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Sloan pins down a handful of students who've made the decision to go to law school, despite the grim employment statistics.

斯隆找到了一些面对严峻的就业统计数据但仍决定去读法学院的学生。

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Medical statistics is a discipline that can reveal the objective law of nature and cultivate medical students train of thought for scientific research.

医学统计学是培养医学生科研思维，揭示事物自然客观规律的一门学科。

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The law of statistics is not suspended.

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Apart from his misunderstanding of statistics - or the "law of probabilities", as he put it - another point to consider is that the different leaders have different types of cancer, and the biological mechanisms behind each are different.

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Learning about the distribution of earthquakes may not prevent the Big One, but for war and terrorism, power-law statistics may teach governments something about how to defeat the enemy, and make war less deadly.

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