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More or Less: Behind the Stats Episodes

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    Rail strikes, tyre pollution and sex statistics

    Do rail workers really earn 拢13,000 a year more than nurses?

  2. Radio 4: Royal Twins & Autumn Statement

    In light of the Royal pregnancy Tim Harford asks what severe morning sickness tells us...

  3. Queuing Backwards

    Would life be better if we served the last person to join a queue not the first.

  4. Questioning the Chernobyl disaster death count

    We fact check the recent TV drama Chernobyl

  5. Questioning claims about Covid and children

    How likely are children to end up in hospital because of Covid? And how many have died?

  6. Quarantine, Test and Trace and BODMAS

    Is it true that Covid-19 mostly kills people who would die soon anyway?

  7. Qatar World Cup: the pressure of penalties

    We analyse World Cup penalty data to ask what boosts the chance of scoring from the spot

  8. QAnon: Did 365,348 children go missing in the US in 2020?

    Fact checking a QAnon claim

  9. QAnon: Child runaways and trafficking numbers debunked

    Tackling statistics spread by conspiracy theorists.

  10. Public Sector Pay

    Investigating the public sector pay premium, statins and the 'decline effect'.

  11. Presidential candidates and dementia

    The health risks some of the frontrunners in the US presidential race face

  12. Pregnancy prohibitions 鈥� the evidence

    Taking a statistical look at what expectant mothers should avoid.

  13. Predicting the Presidency

    Nate Silver tells us who will win the 2012 US election - and how he knows.

  14. Predicting the global population

    Predicting the global population: does anyone really know what鈥檚 going to happen?

  15. Predicting L'Aquila Earthquake: is it right to blame the scientists?

    This week six scientists and one ex-government official were sentenced to prison for...

  16. Poverty, Progress 8 and how green is grass?

    Are more working families in poverty? Plus exploring the new school league tables.

  17. Post-Election Special

    The results of the general election are in - but what do they mean?

  18. Pop up economics

    Episode 1 of Tim Harford's new series, Pop Up Economics, in which he tells a live and...

  19. Polls, nuns and life partners

    On the eve of the UK's general election, Tim Harford takes a look at what polling data...

  20. Plenty more fish in the sea?

    Only 100 cod are left in the North Sea according to newspapers. Is this the most wrong...

  21. Plastic Bags

    Has a 5p charge caused a drop in the use of carrier bags?

  22. Pizza and Nuclear War

    How good negotiation can help us split pizzas fairly and also avoid Nuclear War

  23. Per capita GDP, MP claims and the entire EU budget

    What does per capita GDP tell us? How much did the EU spend on covid recovery?

  24. Pensions, and the Eurozone crisis.

    In the week of a nationwide strike over pension changes, Tim Harford explains how the...

  25. Pensioners aren't poor anymore

    High-rolling pensioners? predicting Norovirus, air pollution deaths and lost or found?

  26. Pension Charges

    When the government announced that fees charged by pension providers could be capped,...

  27. Pakistan flooding, UK power prices and Boris鈥檚 broadband claim

    The scale of the disaster is huge, but is a third of Pakistan really under water?

  28. One in 500 Year Storm

    Experts say that Houston just suffered a one in 500 year storm but what does that mean?

  29. Omicron, pandemic birth rates and boosters

    An Omicron update, pandemic birth rates and the booster drive.

  30. Obeying lockdown, flight arrivals and is this wave of the epidemic waning?

    What does the data show about whether this wave of the epidemic is waning in the UK?

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