More or Less Episodes Episode guide
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Nigeria - rich or poor?
Nigeria's bureau of statistics has overhauled the way it calculates the country's GDP...
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NHS waiting lists, Voter ID and measuring divorce
Why a fall in those waiting longest for treatment in England isn't telling the whole story
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NHS hospital deaths
Tim Harford examines the claim that NHS hospital patients are 45% more likely to die...
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NHS consultant pay, Net Zero claims and Scotland's ferry woes
Are consultants in England really paid an average of 拢120,000 a year?
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New hospitals promised, aid to Ukraine, and bacon sandwiches
Dissecting the government鈥檚 hospitals announcement and President Trump鈥檚 Ukraine claims.
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Netflix vs the environment
Does watching 30 minutes of Netflix have the same carbon footprint as driving four miles?
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Netflix and Chill
The carbon consequence of streaming, stats on sepsis and stretching Bill Bryson to Pluto.
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NBA basketball: Is height more important than skill?
How much does a man鈥檚 height affect his chances of becoming an NBA basketball player?
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Nate Silver: Do risk-takers run the world?
Poker player and polling analyst Nate Silver on his new book
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NASA鈥檚 asteroid collision: how many asteroids are really out there?
As NASA rams an asteroid to try and alter its course, how many are yet to be discovered?
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MP misconduct, NHS waiting lists and gold (gold)
Will it take 685 years to clear the NHS waiting list? Are 10% of MPs under investigation?
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Mortgages, birth rates and does space contribute 18% to UK GDP?
Who will be most affected by mortgage rate increases?
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More or Less: Who are the Libor losers? (WS)
How much damage did messing with Libor really do to the financial system? After all, a...
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More or Less: The concrete facts about Trump鈥檚 wall and China
Did China use more concrete in three years than the US in the 20th Century?
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More or Less: Superforecasting, wood burning stoves and the real story of Hidden Figures
Dipping into the archive for stories on the art of prediction and wood burner pollution
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More or Less: Statistics of the Year 2017
Phones, lawn mowers and how Kim Kardashian helped the public understanding of risk.
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More or Less: Opinion polling, Kevin Pietersen, and stacking Lego
On More or Less this week Tim Harford looks at three polls carried out to gauge the on...
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More or Less: How reliable is Kevin Pietersen?
Kevin Pietersen has been widely praised as one of the best England batsmen of the era...
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More boys than girls in Sweden?
Exploring if an influx of teenage boys claiming asylum skewed the population鈥檚 sex ratio
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More alive than dead?
Tim Harford investigates one of the most popular questions from More or Less 鈥淎re It...
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Mitigation or Suppression: What鈥檚 best to tackle Coronavirus?
How statistical modelling can help us respond to the Coronavirus pandemic
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Missing women from drug trials
How medical testing on just men causes problems.
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Missing planes
Could Bayesian statistics find Flight MH370 from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing? This niche...
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Missed appointments, graduate pay, plus cocaine on bank notes
Do missed appointments cost the NHS 拢1 billion? And do you always earn more with a degree?
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Migrant Crisis
A "swarm" of migrants heading for Europe? Are the numbers really up?
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Mice and mind blowing maths
Re-inserting a caveat and discussing a really cool numbers trick.
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Melting Antarctic ice
If all the ice in Antarctica melted, would global sea levels rise by 70 metres?
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Measuring famine
How do you measure a famine? Following the UN鈥檚 recent announcement that famine have...
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Measles, Traitors and the cost of Brexit
Is measles spreading? How much is Brexit costing? How good are they at traitor guessing?
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Maths and the Mayflower
Are there really 35 million descendants of the Mayflower alive today?
