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 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.
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MP misconduct, NHS waiting lists and gold (gold)
Wed 22 May 2024
Will it take 685 years to clear the NHS waiting list? Are 10% of MPs under investigation?
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Are falling marriage rates causing happiness to fall in the US?
Sat 18 May 2024
Investigating the relationship between matrimony and melancholy.
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Is reading for pleasure the single biggest factor in how well a child does in life?
Sat 11 May 2024
What research says about the connection between reading and success in later life.
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Do one in five young Americans think the holocaust is a myth?
Sat 4 May 2024
How problems with opt-in polling can lead to controversial headlines
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Has Milei fixed Argentina鈥檚 inflation problem?
Fri 26 Apr 2024
What falling inflation means for Milei鈥檚 austerity plan and economic 鈥渟hock鈥� measures
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98%: Is misinformation being spread about a review of trans youth medicine?
Sat 20 Apr 2024
Investigating claims that the Cass Review ignored valuable evidence
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Is loneliness as bad for you as smoking?
Sat 6 Apr 2024
The connection between being alone and an early death
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Remembering Daniel Kahneman
Sat 30 Mar 2024
Tim Harford on the great social scientist, who has died at the age of 90
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Bonus episode: Daniel Kahneman on Thinking, Fast and Slow
Thu 28 Mar 2024
In an episode of More or Less from 2012, Daniel Kahneman explains his big ideas.
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What's happening to Arctic ice?
Mon 25 Mar 2024
Arctic ice has been in long decline. Do recent fluctuations change the story?
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Does the Russian government really spend 40% of its budget on the military?
Sat 16 Mar 2024
We investigate how much the Russian state is spending on the war in Ukraine.
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Is public speaking really our biggest fear?
Sat 9 Mar 2024
Tim Harford investigates the claim that public speaking is people鈥檚 number one fear.
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Ultramarathons: Are women faster than men?
Sat 2 Mar 2024
Is it really true that in extremely long races, women run faster than men?
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School spending, excess deaths and billions of animals at Heathrow
Wed 28 Feb 2024
Is school funding at record levels? Did 6.5bn creatures come to the UK by plane last year?
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NBA basketball: Is height more important than skill?
Sat 24 Feb 2024
How much does a man鈥檚 height affect his chances of becoming an NBA basketball player?
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Per capita GDP, MP claims and the entire EU budget
Wed 21 Feb 2024
What does per capita GDP tell us? How much did the EU spend on covid recovery?
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The digital 鈥榬obots鈥� unlocking medical data
Sat 17 Feb 2024
Ben Goldacre on OpenSAFELY, protecting patient privacy while analysing health data
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Debt, students, shark and chips
Wed 14 Feb 2024
What is the government鈥檚 rule on debt? Do 90% of chip shops sell shark and chips?
