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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How do you breed seventeen octillion rats?
Wed 2 Oct 2024
Plus, GPs working less, the UK working less, and Wetherspoons wanting to pay less tax.
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The puzzles you鈥檙e meant to get wrong
Sat 28 Sep 2024
Alex Bellos sets Tim Harford logical conundrums designed to deceive
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Could the winter fuel cut cost more than it saves?
Wed 25 Sep 2024
Plus, ONS transgender stats, early-onset cancer, and puzzles you鈥檙e meant to get wrong
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Do 85% of the world鈥檚 population practice a religion?
Sat 21 Sep 2024
Counting religions across the globe 鈥� is the world getting more religious or less?
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How do you count millionaires?
Wed 18 Sep 2024
Plus, asylum seeker costs, private school bets and Baumol's cost disease
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Nate Silver: Do risk-takers run the world?
Sat 14 Sep 2024
Poker player and polling analyst Nate Silver on his new book
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How long does it take to turn around an oil tanker?
Wed 11 Sep 2024
Plus, Migrants vs Pensioners and Ed Miliband鈥檚 energy auction claim
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Who pays when trade wars heat up?
Sat 7 Sep 2024
We look at Donald Trump鈥檚 claim that tariffs are a tax on other countries
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Exclusions, black holes and dividing by zero
Wed 4 Sep 2024
Plus special educational needs in Wales and Ghanian nurses in the UK
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Where have Cuba鈥檚 people gone?
Sat 31 Aug 2024
We investigate the collapse in the Caribbean island鈥檚 population
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Do we eat a credit card's worth of microplastic each week?
Sat 24 Aug 2024
We look at whether humans really ingest five grams of microplastic on a weekly basis
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Are companies making more money from their customers?
Sat 17 Aug 2024
We investigate claims mark-ups are larger than ever
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Is planet Earth getting greener?
Sat 10 Aug 2024
Jordan Peterson says Earth has greened by 20% in 20 years. Is he right?
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Does a language die every two weeks?
Sat 3 Aug 2024
Languages are disappearing. We investigate claims of how often this happens.
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Are women 14 times more likely to die in natural disasters?
Sat 27 Jul 2024
We unpick the idea that women outnumber men by 14 to 1 as casualties of natural disasters
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Is increasing turbulence making flying more dangerous?
Sat 20 Jul 2024
Exploring the link between bumpy flights and climate change
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Federer鈥檚 54%: Tennis stats explained
Sat 13 Jul 2024
How Federer became the best in the world winning just over half the points he played
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The magic of trigonometry
Sat 6 Jul 2024
Tim Harford interviews Matt Parker on his latest book 鈥楲ove Triangle鈥�
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Election endings, tennis and meeting men in finance
Wed 3 Jul 2024
Exit polls, election claims, and a 54% chance of winning a point in tennis
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How a tick box doubled the US maternal mortality rates.
Sat 29 Jun 2024
We investigate changes to the way the US gathers their maternal mortality statistics
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Election claims and erection claims
Wed 26 Jun 2024
What did Liz Truss do to mortgage rates? Do erections use a litre of blood?
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Do 鈥榩ig butchering鈥� cyber scams make as much as half Cambodia鈥檚 GDP?
Sat 22 Jun 2024
We investigate the money made by an international cybercrime operation
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Worse mortgages, better readers, and potholes on the moon
Wed 19 Jun 2024
We check some of the numbers that are flying about in the election campaign
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Leaflets, taxes, oil workers and classrooms
Wed 12 Jun 2024
We look at bad graphs, oil rig extrapolations and pupil populations
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Why medical error is not the third leading cause of death in the US
Sat 8 Jun 2024
Investigating how many deaths are caused by mistakes by doctors and nurses
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Debate, Reform, tax evasion and ants
Wed 5 Jun 2024
Fact-checking the leaders' debate, tax evasion savings and the weight of ants
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Data for India
Sat 1 Jun 2024
Changing India in numbers: what type of country will the next administration lead?
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UK growth, prisons and Swiftonomics
Wed 29 May 2024
Is the UK economy growing faster than Germany, France and the US?
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Is intermittent fasting going to kill you?
Sat 25 May 2024
Investigating research which suggested time restricted eating increased the risk of death.
