More or Less Podcast
Tim Harford explains - and sometimes debunks - the numbers and statistics used in political debate, the news and everyday life
Episodes to download
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WS More or Less: The death rate of white Americans 鈥� What鈥檚 going on?
Fri 21 Apr 2017
Are middle-aged white Americans dying younger than other groups?
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Living standards and Kate Bush maths
Fri 21 Apr 2017
Are people's incomes falling? Plus singing Pi like Kate Bush
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Economics of Overbooking
Fri 14 Apr 2017
Why airlines bet that not everybody will turn up for a flight.
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WS More or Less: Could North Korea Wipe out 90% of Americans?
Mon 10 Apr 2017
Experts warn that North Korea could wipe out most Americans in one go.
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WS More or Less: Will one in four people develop a mental health problem?
Fri 31 Mar 2017
Is there evidence that one in four people will develop a mental health problem?
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WS More Or Less: Baby Boxes 鈥� are they really saving infant鈥檚 lives?
Fri 24 Mar 2017
They鈥檝e become a bit of a phenomenon but what鈥檚 the evidence that they work?
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More or Less: The concrete facts about Trump鈥檚 wall and China
Fri 17 Mar 2017
Did China use more concrete in three years than the US in the 20th Century?
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WS More or Less: The Attention Span of a Goldfish
Fri 10 Mar 2017
Are our attention spans now shorter than a goldfish's?
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WS More or Less: Why are Hollywood actresses paid less than men?
Fri 3 Mar 2017
Top Hollywood actresses have complained that they are paid less than their male co-stars
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WS More or Less: What happened last night in Sweden?
Fri 24 Feb 2017
What happened last night in Sweden?
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Hidden Figures: The Real Story
Fri 17 Feb 2017
.African American women's part in the space race of the '50s and '60s
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WS More or Less: Hans Rosling - the extraordinary life of a statistical guru
Sat 11 Feb 2017
A tribute to Hans Rosling, a master communicator with a passion for global development.
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WS More or Less: Is democracy failing in America?
Fri 3 Feb 2017
Does North Carolina really rank alongside North Korea if you measure electoral integrity
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WS More or Less: Counting Crowds
Fri 27 Jan 2017
How many went to celebrate 鈥� and how many to protest 鈥� the Trump inauguration?
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WS More or Less: Why January makes us want to scream
Fri 20 Jan 2017
Blue Monday and Oxfam's wealth of billionaires- the stories that come around every year
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WS More or Less: Christian Martyrs
Fri 13 Jan 2017
Were 90,000 Christians killed because of their faith in 2016?
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WS More or Less: Should we really be drinking eight glasses of water a day?
Fri 6 Jan 2017
How much water do we need and how much is too much?
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WS More or Less: Does Sweden Really Have a Six Hour Day?
Tue 3 Jan 2017
Can you reduce working hours without affecting productivity?
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The Haber-Bosch Process
Fri 23 Dec 2016
Saving lives with thin air - by taking nitrogen from the air to make fertiliser
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WS More or Less: Life, death and data
Fri 23 Dec 2016
Improving data to target help to the poorest people
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WS More or Less: Yellow cards for Christmas
Fri 16 Dec 2016
Are footballers trying to get suspended for Christmas?
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Have more famous people died this year?
Fri 16 Dec 2016
Notable deaths, Rule Britannia and creating your own Christmas speech
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WS More or Less: How risky is the contraceptive pill?
Mon 12 Dec 2016
We look at the numbers behind the scary headlines about birth control.
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How wrong were the Brexit forecasts?
Fri 9 Dec 2016
The economic doom that never was; childhood cancer figures and Ed Balls
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WS More or Less: How not to test public opinion
Fri 2 Dec 2016
The survey by the Indian PM that broke all the polling rules and started a mass protest
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Are you related to Edward III - and Danny Dyer?
Fri 2 Dec 2016
What are the odds of being related to a medieval king? and how many cows for a fiver?
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WS More or Less: Good news on renewables?
Mon 28 Nov 2016
Renewable capacity has surpassed that of coal鈥搃s this good news? Plus an asteroid update.
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Pensioners aren't poor anymore
Fri 25 Nov 2016
High-rolling pensioners? predicting Norovirus, air pollution deaths and lost or found?
