22 May 2013

'Anthimeria' in the news

Anthimeria is, apparently, the process of switching a word from one part of speech to another.

Robert Lane Greene, explains all, with ample examples, in Think Similar. Excellent.

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...