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みみ

49行目についてなのですがhealthy enoughを十分健康と捉えてしまったのですが和訳がほどほどに健康となっていました。なぜそのように捉えたのか分からないので教えて頂きたいです。よろしくお願いいたします。

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distribution was valid; all the rest had to be thrown ou
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IQ scores now fall into a bell curve mainly because that is where the original
English and American *psychometricians thought they should fall. But suppose they'd
started out with different preconceptions. Suppose they believed that "intelligence"
was something like "health": some people were weak and some were strong, but most
people were "healthy enough." Their bodies may have been shaped differently, but one
50 type couldn't be called healthier than another. In that case, the distribution of IQ
scores would have been very different.

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taka

文脈を考えれば、「十分に健康である」でも良いと思います。
もし彼らが「知能」を「健康」のようなものだと考えていたとすれば、どうでしょうか。つまり、弱い人もいれば強い人もいるが、ほとんどの人は「十分に健康である」と。
もちろん、「ほどほどに健康である」は、とても優れた和訳ですけどね。

参考にしてください。