More or Less: Behind the Stats Podcast
Tim Harford and the More or Less team try to make sense of the statistics which surround us. From 蜜芽传媒 Radio 4
Episodes to download
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WS More or Less: Diet Coke Habit; 'Contained' Wildfires
Mon 18 Dec 2017
Could the US President鈥檚 Diet Coke habit affect his health? and 'contained' wildfires
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WS More or Less: Does Eating Chocolate Make Your Brain Younger?
Mon 11 Dec 2017
Are research findings misrepresented by funders, PR machines and the media?
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WS More or Less: Just how lucky are regular lottery winners?
Mon 4 Dec 2017
Are some people just very lucky? The maths suggest that is unlikely.
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WS More or Less: How Rich was Jane Austen鈥檚 Mr Darcy?
Sun 26 Nov 2017
What the Pride and Prejudice character would have earned in today鈥檚 money.
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How expensive is Italy's World Cup failure?
Fri 17 Nov 2017
How much will Italy's surprise failure to make it to the world cup cost FIFA?
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WS More or Less: Why Albums are Getting Longer
Sun 12 Nov 2017
More or less finds out the numbers that are changing modern music.
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WS More or Less: Do Nigerian lawmakers get $1.7m and do Yams cause twins?
Sun 5 Nov 2017
Finding out if Nigerian politicians really get paid more than the American President.
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WS More or Less: Novelists in numbers
Mon 30 Oct 2017
Counting the favourite words of well-known authors: Stephen King, Hemingway and others
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WS More or Less: Are US millennials more politically engaged online?
Fri 20 Oct 2017
Did the 2016 US election galvanise young people to become more engaged in politics?
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How Richard Thaler changed Economics
Fri 13 Oct 2017
The behavioural economist who has inspired governments around the world.
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WS More or Less: Kilobyte to Brontobyte
Mon 9 Oct 2017
Naming the monster numbers - how the names of digital storage files evolved.
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WS More or Less: Big polluters - ships versus cars
Mon 2 Oct 2017
Do the largest ships emit as much pollution as all the cars in the world?
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Uber; EU passports; counting domestic violence
Fri 29 Sep 2017
Is Uber safe? The post Brexit dual nationality surge and measuring partner abuse.
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WS More or Less: Sperm - Are we going extinct?
Mon 25 Sep 2017
How much of a problem is falling sperm count?
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Statistics abuse, tuition fees and beer in 1887
Fri 22 Sep 2017
Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson is accused of mis-using official statistics.
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WS More or Less: How to measure a Hurricane
Fri 15 Sep 2017
What鈥檚 the best way to measure a hurricane?
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Are Natural Disasters on the Rise?
Fri 15 Sep 2017
Has the number of natural disasters really quadrupled in the last forty years?
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WS More or Less: More Horses than Tanks?
Mon 11 Sep 2017
Is the UK the only country with more horses than tanks in its army?
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Electric cars, school-ready and feedback
Fri 8 Sep 2017
Will we need more power stations? Plus, are children in Manchester ready for school?
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One in 500 Year Storm
Mon 4 Sep 2017
Experts say that Houston just suffered a one in 500 year storm but what does that mean?
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Grenfell Tower's Death Toll
Fri 1 Sep 2017
The difficulties of finding the true number of people who died in the fire.
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Fantasy Football - How to win
Mon 28 Aug 2017
Figuring out the best strategy as a wannabe team manager.
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A-levels, drowning and dress sizes
Fri 25 Aug 2017
Are boys getting more top A Level grades than girls? Plus why are dress sizes so weird?
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The Trump Bump
Sun 20 Aug 2017
President Trump has taken credit for a booming economy. But is that fair?
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Are there 15,000 transgender people serving in the US military?
Mon 14 Aug 2017
President Trump says transgender individuals cannot serve, but how many do already?
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Why is Kenya鈥檚 election so expensive?
Mon 14 Aug 2017
Why the cost of running the vote will be $25 a person.
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More boys than girls in Sweden?
Mon 31 Jul 2017
Exploring if an influx of teenage boys claiming asylum skewed the population鈥檚 sex ratio
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Maryam Mirzakhani 鈥� A Genius of Maths
Mon 24 Jul 2017
Celebrating the only woman to win the biggest prize in mathematics.
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Calling the shots at Wimbledon
Mon 17 Jul 2017
Using statistics to prove or disprove the wisdom of tennis.
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Is Steph Curry cheap and how random is random?
Mon 10 Jul 2017
Evaluating the biggest basketball contract in NBA history, plus Ryanair鈥檚 seat allocation
