More or Less Episodes Episode guide
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Cape Town murders
Are eight people a day murdered in Cape Town and is that number unusually high?
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Deforestation in Brazil
Has it increased significantly since President Bolsonaro took office in January?
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Amazon forest fires
Are they really 85 percent worse than last year?
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Ethiopia’s 350m trees in a day
Were millions of trees planted in just one day in Ethiopia?
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Mice and mind blowing maths
Re-inserting a caveat and discussing a really cool numbers trick.
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Immigrant crime rates in the US
Do immigrants commit more crime than native-born Americans in the United States?
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The spread of fact-checking in Africa
With misinformation so easy to spread, how can it be stopped or challenged?
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Pregnancy prohibitions – the evidence
Taking a statistical look at what expectant mothers should avoid
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Missing women from drug trials
How medical testing on just men causes problems.
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Zimbabwe’s economy: Are sanctions to blame?
We look at politicians’ claims that sanctions are to blame for Zimbabwe’s difficulties.
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Is nuclear power actually safer than you think?
We compare how deadly different forms of power generation are.
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Questioning the Chernobyl disaster death count
We fact check the recent TV drama Chernobyl
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Are married women flipping miserable?
Questioning the claim that unmarried women without children are the happiest
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Dealing with the numbers of cancer
How one woman used statistics to help cope with cancer
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The things we fail to see
The hidden influences that make a big difference to the way the world works
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Volcanoes versus humans
Does Mount Etna produce more carbon emissions than humans? We check the numbers.
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Florence Nightingale – recognising the nurse statistician
How collecting data about the dead led the famous nurse to promote better sanitation.
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Making music out of money
A musical interpretation of a chart depicting the yield-curve of American bonds.
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Sex Recession
US and British surveys show people are having less sex than in the past.
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Avengers - Should we reverse the snap?
Exploring the economic impact of losing half the world’s population
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Bernie Sanders and the cost of having a baby
Did Bernie Sanders get the cost of giving birth right?
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The economic impact of mega sporting events
Major sports events and the benefits to the local economy.
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Where is Scotland’s highest village?
A battle is brewing in the Southern Scottish uplands between two rival villages.
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Rounding up the weed killer cancer conundrum
We examine the cancer-causing potential of the weed killer glyphosate
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Chess cheats and the GOAT
What a statistical analysis of chess moves can teach us about this ancient game.
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Is Mansa Musa the richest person of all time?
Is the West African king, Mansa Musa, the richest person who ever lived?
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Daylight saving time and heart attacks
Does the sudden loss of an hour of sleep raise the risk of having a heart attack?
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The gender gap in tech
Are women really less likely than men to be hired for jobs in tech?
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Insectageddon
Could insects go extinct in one hundred years?
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How to make your artwork more valuable
Six top tips on how to get the best price for your art