19 September 2011

Desperately seeking translators! No experience required!

Amazingly, this headline is from a real advertisement. See for yourself at realtranslatorjobs.

I trust translation buyers will find this encouraging.
Later: Fortunately, it turns out that it's a scam. See tjsdaily.blogspot.

More on a very similar scam at realwritingjobscom-scam-legit-review.

How to help your readers' intuition, or lack thereof, when talking about probabilities

Bayes' famous theorem is widely regarded as the most important theorem in statistics. But that doesn't mean that it is easy to under...