More or Less: Behind the Stats Episodes Episode guide
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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?
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Maternity litigation, stars, bees and windowless planes
Are damages for maternity mistakes now more than wages for maternity nurses and doctors?
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Maternal deaths, taxi driver earnings and statistical pop music
Are black women five times more likely to die in childbirth? Plus making pop music.
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Maryam Mirzakhani 鈥� A Genius of Maths
Celebrating the only woman to win the biggest prize in mathematics.
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Male suicide, school ratings, are female tennis players treated unfairly by umpires?
Tim Harford with statistics on suicide, good schools and sexism in tennis. Plus goats
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Making music out of Money
A musical interpretation of a chart depicting the yield-curve of American bonds.
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Mailbox edition
Your questions answered - Do the Maasai in Africa number one million? Is it true that...
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Magic Numbers
Do you have a favourite number - one you love, one you think stands out from all the...
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Lula鈥檚 鈥渮ero deforestation鈥� plan for the Amazon
How much of the rainforest has been lost? And can Brazil鈥檚 new president save it?
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Love by numbers
Can economics help you find love? Tim Harford and the team look at the maths behind...
