More or Less Episodes Episode guide
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Why is it so hard to predict the outcome of competitions like the Premier League?
What variables do we look at when we try to predict the outcome of a sports competition?
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Why is data on grooming gangs so bad?
Plus, nuclear enrichment numbers, Curtice on Curtis and Viking economics
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Why did the UK have such a bad Covid-19 epidemic?
Was it bad decision-making, bad advice, or bad luck?
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Why are US Covid cases falling?
From herd immunity to the weather, Tim Harford explores the theories.
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Why are more people claiming disability benefits?
Plus, UK vs Russia on free speech and the collapse of the Labour Force Survey
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Why are data so important in determining how we live?
How good policies depend on the availability of reliable statistics
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Who Should be Quarantined?
Tim Harford finds out which countries have the highest rate of Covid-19 infection.
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Who pays when trade wars heat up?
We look at Donald Trump鈥檚 claim that tariffs are a tax on other countries
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Who earns more?
Who earns more: private or public employees? And are your trousers flattering you?
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Who are the Libor losers?
How much damage did messing with Libor really do to the financial system? And we the a...
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Who are the 1% and the 99%?
Tim Harford on income inequality in the UK, and elsewhere. He speaks to Professor Sir...
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Which city has the longest canals?
We dive into the world of waterways after a listener asked who has the longest canals.
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Where is Scotland鈥檚 highest village?
A battle is brewing in the Southern Scottish uplands between two rival villages.
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Where have Cuba鈥檚 people gone?
We investigate the collapse in the Caribbean island鈥檚 population
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Where could we fit the entire world鈥檚 population?
If all the world鈥檚 population crowded together, where could we all fit? London? More...
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Where are the world hardest workers? (WS)
Earlier in the year we found out that Greeks put in more working hours than Germans.
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Where are the Paralympics Medals?
Why did the USA top the gold medals league in the Olympics, but not the Paralympics?...
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When do food shortages become a famine?
With Somalia in crisis, we ask how data is used to officially declare a famine
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When are numbers like a horse at a gymkhana?
Plus: the taxes of 60 very rich people, water bill spreadsheets, and is 0 a small number?
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What鈥檚 Trump鈥檚 problem with Canada?
Does the US subsidise Canada $200 billion a year and why does Trump call them nasty?
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What's Scottish Independence Worth?
Scottish independence - yes or no? Which will line your pocket more? The Scottish says...
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What's happening to Arctic ice?
Arctic ice has been in long decline. Do recent fluctuations change the story?
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What the Dickens?
Boom. Bust. Bah humbug. Tim Harford narrates 'A More or Less Christmas Carol' in which...
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What price the life of a badger?
Has the government taken into account the worth of a badger's life in any cost-benefit...
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What percentage of our brain do we actually use?
Do we have access to some or all of our brain-power?
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What is the world average salary?
If there were perfect income equality worldwide, and everybody earned the same amount...
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What is the most visited country in the world?
This week we find out what the most visited country in the world is and ask why they...
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What is an IQ map and can we trust them?
We investigate maps that suggest extremely low average IQs in developing countries
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What do windscreen splats tell us about insect decline?
We ask whether the 鈥榳indscreen phenomenon鈥� suggests falling numbers of insects
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What can economics learn from sport?
From loss aversion to game theory, how sports provide evidence for economic theories
