More or Less Episodes Episode guide
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The Cost of a Wedding Gift
How much should spend when a couple get married?
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Drug deaths in the Philippines
How many people have died during President Duterte鈥檚 drug crackdown?
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Menstrual Syncing
Do women鈥檚 periods start to synchronise if they spend time together?
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Death Penalty abolition
The story behind the countries that have not executed anyone for 10 years
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Counting Terror Deaths
Has 2016 been a particularly bad year for terrorism in Europe?
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Swimming World Records
Why are swimming world records frequently being broken?
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Predicting Olympic Medals
What makes a country successful at winning gold, silver and bronze?
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Odd Socks and Algorithms
How can the techniques of computer science help us in everyday life?
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Ireland鈥檚 Shock GDP figures
Does Ireland have the fastest growing economy in the world?
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Violence, shootings and the police in the US
Tim Harford investigates the numbers surrounding police shootings in the USA.
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Sleeping: the 8-hour myth
Could having a lie-in lead to an early death?
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Ranking Iceland鈥檚 Football Team
Are Iceland's football team the best in the world per capita?
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Brexit Economics
What will happen to trade and business in the UK after leaving the EU?
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When Companies Track Your Life
How are companies using our personal data?
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Sexist Data Crisis
Are we collecting enough data about women?
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HIV in Africa
Is it true that 74% of African girls aged 15-24 HIV positive?
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Refugee Camp Statistics
Is it true that the average stay in a refugee camp is 17 years?
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The World's Most Profitable Product
Is the iPhone the most profitable product in history? What are the other contenders?
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The World鈥檚 Most Diverse City
Is it true that London is the most diverse city in the world?
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Leicester City football fluke?
The statistics behind the English Premier League鈥檚 surprise winners
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Simpson鈥檚 Paradox
We explore how statistics can support two seemingly contradictory results.
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Most Expensive Building
How much to build The Great Pyramid, a nuclear power station, or an airport?
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The Life Expectancy of a Pope
Statistics show that the Head of the Catholic Church can expect to live to an old age
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The story of average
How astronomers introduced the world to the average.
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The Great EU Cabbage Myth
Does the European Union dedicate 26,911 words to cabbage regulation?
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Safe Drinking
UK Alcohol guidelines recommend drinking less 鈥� but do the numbers support them?
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Mobiles or lightbulbs
Are there more mobile phones than lightbulbs in Uganda? And thyroid cancer in Fukushima.
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Can We Trust Food Surveys?
The pitfalls of nutrition science - how do really know what people are eating?
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Fact checking The Big Short
Is it true that 鈥渆very one percent unemployment goes up, 40,000 people die"?
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Antibiotics and the Problem of the Broken Market
The world needs new antibiotics so how do we entice big pharmaceuticals back in?
