Chua, Amy, and Jed Rubenfeld. The Triple Package: How Three Unlikely Traits Explain the Rise and Fall of Cultural Groups in America. Penguin, 2014. Print.
An English-Chinese translator was asked by a friend about the word count ratio between the original English text and its Chinese translation. The translator, being the math nerd he is supposed to be, by virtue of being a Chinese -- though using the same argument you can call a chicken duck, or a duck goose -- randomly selected five chapters from his recent translation, and her...