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04/06/2010

Tim Harford presents the magazine which explains the numbers behind the news.

Which would win in a fight - a shark or a toaster? Tim Harford finds out in this week's More or Less. The team also investigate whether Hospital Standardised Mortality Ratios (or HSMRs) - expected deaths to observed deaths - can be unhelpful, ask who stands to lose from the scrapping of Child Trust Funds and remember the great mathematician, Martin Gardner.

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Sun 6 Jun 2010 20:00

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  • Fri 4 Jun 2010 13:30
  • Sun 6 Jun 2010 20:00

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