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More or Less: Behind the Stats Episodes

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    How much is a human life worth?

    The Price of Life author Jenny Kleeman on the cost of making and taking a life

  2. How much heat do you lose from your head?

    Is it true that 40% of your body's heat loss comes from your head?

  3. How much does the EU cost the UK? Plus, dog years

    Tim Harford makes sense of the numbers being used in the political battle about the UK...

  4. How much Covid in the World?

    Counting all the virus particles in every human on the planet.

  5. How many words do you need to speak a language?

    How many words do you need to speak a language and how many do native speakers use?

  6. How many swimming pools full of vaccine do we need?

    Adding together the doses for everyone on the planet.

  7. How Many Schoolchildren are Carers? Shareholder Income, and Museum Visitors Vs Football Fans

    Tim Harford on child carers, shareholder income, football vs museums and dangerous sports

  8. How many people support Manchester United?

    This week Ruth Alexander looks at Manchester United versus Real Madrid in the last 16...

  9. How many holes are there in a drinking straw?

    Tim Harford talks to Jordan Ellenberg about the pandemic, geometry and drinking straws.

  10. How many butterflies are there in the world?

    The world鈥檚 butterfly population doesn鈥檛 seem to be online 鈥� so what is it?

  11. How many Americans live 鈥榩aycheck to paycheck鈥�?

    How many Americans live 鈥榩aycheck to paycheck鈥�?

  12. How many American women will have an abortion in their lifetime?

    In the wake of the historic overturning of Roe vs Wade, we look at the statistics.

  13. How long will you live?

    Life expectancy at birth around the world has increased by six years in the past two...

  14. How long does it take to turn around an oil tanker?

    Plus, Migrants vs Pensioners and Ed Miliband鈥檚 energy auction claim

  15. How harmful is alcohol?

    Are there problems with the way we judge the harms from alcohol? Tim Harford finds out.

  16. How good were the performances at the Tokyo Olympics?

    What can the data tell us about the quality of the Covid hit games?

  17. How good were the performances at the Tokyo Olympics?

    What can the data tell us about the quality of the Covid hit games?

  18. How extraordinary is Ye Shiwen? WS

    There was controversy this week after Ye Shiwen, a young Chinese swimmer, won the 400...

  19. How extraordinary is Ye Shiwen?

    There was controversy this week after Ye Shiwen, a young Chinese swimmer, won the 400...

  20. How expensive is Italy's World Cup failure?

    How much will Italy's surprise failure to make it to the world cup cost FIFA?

  21. How effective is one dose of the vaccine?

    Is the first dose of the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine 52% or 90% effective?

  22. How do you make something 10-times more lethal?

    Plus, the Sycamore Gap tree, pensioner-worker ratios and yoga v fishers

  23. How do you count millionaires?

    Plus, asylum seeker costs, private school bets and Baumol's cost disease

  24. How do you count millionaires?

    Plus, asylum seeker costs, private school bets and Baumol's cost disease

  25. How do you breed seventeen octillion rats?

    Plus, GPs working less, the UK working less, and Wetherspoons wanting to pay less tax.

  26. How did lockdown impact children?

    Five years on, Tim Harford looks at the data on the effect of lockdown

  27. How Deadly Is Ebola?

    Media reports are suggesting that as many as 12,000 people may have Ebola in West but...

  28. How deadly is Covid 19?

    Why there isn鈥檛 one single death rate.

  29. How dead is the internet?

    We investigate the claim that bots make up 50% of internet traffic

  30. How big are the Conservatives' planned cuts?

    The Conservatives' plans to achieve a budget surplus by 2019-20 have led to near that...

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