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: Leicester City football fluke?
Mon 9 May 2016
The statistics behind the English Premier League鈥檚 surprise winners
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The most profitable product in history
Fri 6 May 2016
Can the iPhone claim this accolade? Plus, the statistics behind Leicester City's success
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WS More or Less: Simpson鈥檚 Paradox
Fri 29 Apr 2016
We explore how statistics can support two seemingly contradictory results.
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WS More or Less: Most Expensive Building
Mon 25 Apr 2016
How much to build The Great Pyramid, a nuclear power station, or an airport?
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WS More or Less: The life expectancy of a Pope
Mon 18 Apr 2016
Statistics show that the Head of the Catholic Church can expect to live to an old age
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WS More or Less: The story of average
Mon 11 Apr 2016
How astronomers introduced the world to the average.
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WS More or Less: The Great EU Cabbage Myth
Tue 5 Apr 2016
Does the European Union dedicate 26,911 words to cabbage regulation?
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The Great EU Cabbage Myth
Mon 4 Apr 2016
Does the European Union dedicate 26,911 words to cabbage regulation?
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WSMoreOrLess: Safe drinking
Thu 24 Mar 2016
UK Alcohol guidelines recommend drinking less 鈥� but do the numbers support them?
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WSMoreOrLess: Mobiles or lightbulbs
Fri 18 Mar 2016
Are there more mobile phones than lightbulbs in Uganda? And thyroid cancer in Fukushima.
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WSMoreOrLess: Can we trust food surveys?
Fri 11 Mar 2016
The pitfalls of nutrition science - how do really know what people are eating?
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WSMoreOrLess: Fact checking The Big Short
Fri 4 Mar 2016
Is it true that 鈥渆very one percent unemployment goes up, 40,000 people die"?
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WSMoreOrLess: Antibiotics and the problem of the broken market
Fri 26 Feb 2016
The world needs new antibiotics so how do we entice big pharma back in to the market?
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WSMoreOrLess: When 拢10,000 isn鈥檛 a good incentive
Fri 19 Feb 2016
Could no prize have been a better way to motivate snooker player Ronnie O鈥橲ullivan?
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WSMoreOrLess: Fishy numbers?
Fri 12 Feb 2016
Will there be more plastic than fish in the sea by 2050?
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Selfies, sugar daddies and dodgy surveys
Fri 12 Feb 2016
Women taking selfies for more than five hours a day and other junk adverstising surveys.
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WSMoreOrLess: Do e-cigarettes really harm your chances of quitting smoking?
Mon 8 Feb 2016
Should research described as "misleading" and "not scientific" have been published?
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E-cigarettes: Can They Help People Quit?
Fri 5 Feb 2016
Do e-cigarettes harm your chances of quitting smoking? Tim Harford looks at the evidence.
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Swedish refugees
Fri 29 Jan 2016
Have refugees caused a gender imbalance in Sweden? Tim Harford finds out.
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How harmful is alcohol?
Fri 29 Jan 2016
Are there problems with the way we judge the harms from alcohol? Tim Harford finds out.
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WSMoreOrLess: Oxfam and Wealth Inequality
Mon 25 Jan 2016
Were Oxfam right to compare the wealth of the rich with that of the poor?
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Billionaires versus the world
Fri 22 Jan 2016
Does it matter that 62 people now own as much wealth as half of the world鈥檚 population?
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WS MoreOrLess: Gravitational Waves
Fri 15 Jan 2016
In search of a previously unobserved part of Einstein鈥檚 theory.
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Weekend Stroke Deaths
Fri 15 Jan 2016
Jeremy Hunt says if you have a stroke at the weekend, you're 20% more likely to die .
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Flood Defence Spending
Fri 8 Jan 2016
Is there a north-south divide in the amount of money spent on flood defences in England?
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WS MoreOrLess: Numbers of the Year 2015: Part Three
Thu 7 Jan 2016
Tim Harford looks back at some of the most interesting numbers making the news in 2015.
