20 May 2013

'Meeting' in the news

FT columnist Lucy Kellaway has published an article entitled A meeting by any other name isn’t worth going to. An interesting take indeed on the word 'meeting' and several dozen synonyms, complete with Lucy's comments on why they are not recommended.
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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...