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If you notice a serious factual error in the source text, what would you do?

By anonymous

Inform the client and suggest corrections.	84.0%
It depends (please discuss).	6.7%
Correct it without asking.	5.8%
Translate it exactly as written.	3.5%

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Can you identify differences between human and machine translations?

By anonymous - featured on Jan 26

Definitely.	47.5%
Most likely.	29.9%
Sometimes.	19.5%
Rarely.	1.4%
N/A (please share)	1.4%
Absolutely not.	0.5%

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