More or Less: Behind the Stats Episodes Episode guide
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WS MoreOrLess: The numbers of 2013 - part 2
A guide to 2013 in numbers - the most informative, interesting and idiosyncratic of by...
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WS MoreOrLess: The numbers of 2013 - part 1
A guide to 2013 in numbers - the most informative, interesting and idiosyncratic of by...
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WS MoreOrLess: The maths of dating
How to use mathematics to find your life partner. Plus: what are the chances that two...
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WS MoreOrLess: The Ignorance Test
Professor Hans Rosling - perhaps best-described as a kind of international development...
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WS MoreOrLess: The future of food
"In the next 40 years, humans will need to produce more food that they did in the a of...
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WS MoreOrLess: The Elliptical Pool Table
Tim Harford tests the geometric properties of an elliptical pool table.
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WS MoreOrLess: Testing the PISA test
The publication of the latest international education league table has created waves...
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WS MoreOrLess: Soviet World War Deaths
Did almost 80% of the males born in the Soviet Union in 1923 not survive World War as...
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WS MoreOrLess: Sleeping: the 8-hour myth
It鈥檚 often said that we should all be aiming to get eight hours of sleep a night but...
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WS MoreOrLess: Sachin Tendulkar - best batsman of all time?
Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar has amassed 15,847 test runs, which is 2,500 more runs than...
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WS MoreOrLess: Risk Savvy
A famous probability puzzle is discussed involving goats and game shows with German...
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WS MoreOrLess: Qatar migrant worker deaths
Tim Harford asks if the World Cup is really responsible for migrant deaths in Qatar.
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WS MoreOrLess: Processed Meat and Cancer
Are processed meats as cancer-causing as cigarettes? Ruth Alexander investigates.
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WS MoreOrLess: Princess Charlotte
The birth of Princess Charlotte could contribute 拢1 billion to the British economy,...
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WS MoreOrLess: Pregnancy and Homicide
The movie Gone Girl claims homicide is a leading cause of death for pregnant women.
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WS MoreOrLess: Population explosion?
"We just shut our eyes to the fact that the world's population is increasing out of...
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WS MoreOrLess: Oil
Are a million barrels of Nigeria鈥檚 oil stolen per day? Ruth Alexander finds out.
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WS MoreOrLess: Nuns on the rise
It was recently reported that the number of women training to become Catholic nuns in...
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WS MoreOrLess: Numbers of the Year part 3.
What is the most important number in the world? Robert Peston tells us and Helen Joyce...
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WS MoreOrLess: Numbers of the Year part 2.
How optimistic are people about the future? The 蜜芽传媒's Evan Davis tells More or Less as...
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WS MoreOrLess: Numbers of the Year part 1.
What is so special about 39,222 Mexican teachers? In the first of three episodes back...
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WS MoreOrLess: Numbers of the Year 2015: Part Three
Tim Harford looks back at some of the most interesting numbers making the news in 2015.
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WS MoreOrLess: Numbers of the Year 2015 Part 1
Tim Harford looks back at some of the most interesting numbers of 2015.
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WS MoreOrLess: Nobel Prize puzzle
Tim Harford tells the story of how two economists who disagree with each other have...
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WS MoreOrLess: Mosquitoes and elephants
Has the mosquito killed half the people who have ever lived? Tim Harford assesses the...
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WS MoreOrLess: Money for nothing?
When it comes to aid, what works best 鈥� giving people food, shelter, medicine, or it...
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WS MoreOrLess: Millennium Development Goals
Have the eight goals for addressing extreme poverty set by the UN made a difference?
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WS MoreOrLess: Measuring World Health
Babies born in Rwanda are likely to live healthier lives than those in the most 10% of...
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WS MoreOrLess: Maths and Chess
Is it really true that ability in mathematics and chess are somehow linked? Tim pits a...
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WS MoreOrLess: Liver Transplant.
A young listener who needs a liver transplant has received an offer from his brother a...
