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
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WSMoreOrLess: Counting Foreign Fighters
Fri 31 Jul 2015
How many foreigners have joined militants in Iraq and Syria, and where do they come from?
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WS MoreOrLess: Live 8, The G8 and Making Poverty History
Fri 17 Jul 2015
What has been achieved in the ten years since Live 8 sought to Make Poverty History?
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Greece Special
Fri 10 Jul 2015
Tim Harford and the More or Less team look at the numbers behind the Greek crisis.
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Biggest Movies
Fri 26 Jun 2015
Jurassic World took $511m in its first weekend. Why have recent films done so well?
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WS MoreOrLess: Horoscope Health
Fri 19 Jun 2015
Can your horoscope predict which diseases you鈥檒l develop?
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WS MoreOrLess: Global Footprint
Fri 12 Jun 2015
Do we need one and a half planets worth of resources? Tim Harford investigates.
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Obesity Projections, Global Footprint, Street Value of Drugs
Fri 12 Jun 2015
Tim Harford looks at how recent obesity projections were calculated.
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WS MoreOrLess: Qatar migrant worker deaths
Fri 5 Jun 2015
Tim Harford asks if the World Cup is really responsible for migrant deaths in Qatar.
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World Cup Migrant Deaths
Fri 5 Jun 2015
Tim Harford asks if the World Cup is really responsible for migrant deaths in Qatar.
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Seven-day NHS
Fri 29 May 2015
Tim Harford asks if people admitted to hospital at weekends are more likely to die.
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WS MoreOrLess: Death Penalty
Sat 23 May 2015
Death Row exoneration statistics. Recently it鈥檚 been claimed that for every nine in...
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Female Drink Drivers
Fri 22 May 2015
The Police Federation says female drivers aren鈥檛 heeding the drink drive warnings.
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WS MoreOrLess: Big Numbers
Sat 16 May 2015
How computers are fooled by big numbers. Chris Baraniuk, technology journalist, talks...
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Strokes, Teachers, Confused Computers 15 May15
Fri 15 May 2015
Are stroke numbers on the rise? This was according to recent headlines.
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WS MoreOrLess: Princess Charlotte
Fri 8 May 2015
The birth of Princess Charlotte could contribute 拢1 billion to the British economy,...
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Election and Adultery Special
Fri 8 May 2015
Tim Harford and a panel of experts discuss pre-election polls and election fact checking.
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UK election podcast 4
Wed 6 May 2015
Why don鈥檛 all the opinion polls give the same results? Plus, would Labour鈥檚 plan a...
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WS MoreOrLess: Nuns on the rise
Sat 2 May 2015
It was recently reported that the number of women training to become Catholic nuns in...
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Polls, nuns and life partners
Fri 1 May 2015
On the eve of the UK's general election, Tim Harford takes a look at what polling data...
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UK Election Podcast 3
Fri 24 Apr 2015
Are we witnessing a jobs 鈥榤iracle鈥�? Also under scrutiny - Scotland鈥檚 deficit; a...
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WS MoreOrLess: Xenophobia in South Africa
Fri 24 Apr 2015
Are migrants 鈥榮tealing鈥� jobs; does South Africa have more asylum seekers than any...
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UK election podcast 2
Fri 17 Apr 2015
Fact-checking the politicians during the election campaign on NHS funding; rail fares...
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WS MoreOrLess: Liver Transplant.
Fri 17 Apr 2015
A young listener who needs a liver transplant has received an offer from his brother a...
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UK election podcast 1
Mon 13 Apr 2015
Can you trust the figures given to you by the political parties during the UK's We and...
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WS MoreOrLess: The Ignorance Test
Fri 10 Apr 2015
Professor Hans Rosling - perhaps best-described as a kind of international development...
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WS MoreOrLess: Maths and Chess
Sat 4 Apr 2015
Is it really true that ability in mathematics and chess are somehow linked? Tim pits a...
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WS MoreOrLess: How safe is flying?
Sat 28 Mar 2015
The Germanwings A320 tragedy, in which 150 people died, is the latest in a series of...
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Does Breastfeeding Increase IQ?
Sat 21 Mar 2015
A major 30-year study claims to show breastfed babies become more intelligent, higher...
