So thinking about whether or not

所以考虑
it makes sense to give an administrative agency

给予行政机构这种自由裁量权
that kind of discretion is very important.

是否有意义是非常重要的
And it depends again on the technical nature of the problem.

这又取决于问题的技术性质
Another key question is risk averaging.

接下来是风险平均
If you have lousy data, data that is collected maybe

如果你获得的数据很糟糕或许
with very small sample sizes so that you have no understanding

只是从一个很小的样本获得的以致你
of demographic variability and exposure or in the complex

根本看不出数量的变化
temporal and spatial distributional patterns of pollution,

或是时间上和空间上复杂的污染分布变化
then it's like looking at the world without my glasses on.

就像我摘掉眼镜看这个世界一样
Which is, all the students look the same

所有的学生看起来都是一样的
so that you lose any resolution,

无法辨认