More or Less: Behind the Stats Episodes Episode guide
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29/11/2025 GMT
Tim Harford explains the numbers and statistics in the news and in life.
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22/11/2025 GMT
Tim Harford explains the numbers and statistics in the news and in life.
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Zimbabwe鈥檚 economy: Are sanctions to blame?
We look at politicians鈥� claims that sanctions are to blame for Zimbabwe鈥檚 difficulties.
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Youth Unemployment
In More or Less this week: youth unemployment, Trumpton and social mobility.
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WSMoreOrLess: When 拢10,000 isn鈥檛 a good incentive
Could no prize have been a better way to motivate snooker player Ronnie O鈥橲ullivan?
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WSMoreOrLess: Safe drinking
UK Alcohol guidelines recommend drinking less 鈥� but do the numbers support them?
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WSMoreOrLess: Oxfam and Wealth Inequality
Were Oxfam right to compare the wealth of the rich with that of the poor?
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WSMoreOrLess: Numbers of the Year 2015 Part 2
Tim Harford looks back at some of the most interesting numbers of 2015.
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WSMoreOrLess: Mobiles or lightbulbs
Are there more mobile phones than lightbulbs in Uganda? And thyroid cancer in Fukushima.
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WSMoreOrLess: Fishy numbers?
Will there be more plastic than fish in the sea by 2050?
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WSMoreOrLess: Fact checking The Big Short
Is it true that 鈥渆very one percent unemployment goes up, 40,000 people die"?
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WSMoreOrLess: Do e-cigarettes really harm your chances of quitting smoking?
Should research described as "misleading" and "not scientific" have been published?
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WSMoreOrLess: Do e-cigarettes really harm your chances of quitting smoking?
Should research described as "misleading" and "not scientific" have been published?
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WSMoreOrLess: Counting Foreign Fighters
How many foreigners have joined militants in Iraq and Syria, and where do they come from?
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WSMoreOrLess: Can we trust food surveys?
The pitfalls of nutrition science - how do really know what people are eating?
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WSMoreOrLess: Antibiotics and the problem of the broken market
The world needs new antibiotics so how do we entice big pharma back in to the market?
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WS: More or Less - How well do you understand your world?
Tim Harford talks to Bobby Duffy about why we are often wrong about a lot of basic facts
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WS: More or Less - Automated fact-checking
Computer programmes are being developed to combat fake news.
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WS MoreOrLess:100 Year Floods?
Do so-called 鈥�100 year floods鈥� only happen once a century?
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WS MoreOrLess: Zimbabwe's Economy
Zimbabwe鈥檚 budget provided a fascinating insight into the country鈥檚 economy last week.
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WS MoreOrLess: Xenophobia in South Africa
Are migrants 鈥榮tealing鈥� jobs; does South Africa have more asylum seekers than any...
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WS MoreOrLess: Wine shortage?
It has been reported that global wine supplies are running low. But shops still seem...
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WS MoreOrLess: Will Berlin see a sub-two-hour marathon?
Why is Berlin the place to break the marathon world record and how long will it be we...
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WS MoreOrLess: What is "rare"?
This week: What is 鈥榬are鈥�? When we say something is rare what do we mean? strikes...
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WS MoreOrLess: To ice or not to ice?
The ALS ice bucket challenge has become a viral phenomenon. People around the world in...
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WS MoreOrLess: The UK vs Mississippi
Is Britain poorer than every US state, except for Mississippi? Journalist Fraser the...
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WS MoreOrLess: The Tour de France
The Tour de France has reached the mountains, but what does it take to be a good and...
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WS MoreOrLess: The Rise of the Giants?
Are rugby players getting bigger and bigger?
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WS MoreOrLess: The prevalence of paedophilia?
The Pope was reported to have said that 2% of Catholic clergy were paedophiles.
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WS MoreOrLess: The Piketty Affair
Did 'rock-star' French economist Thomas Piketty get his numbers wrong? His theories of...
