More or Less: Behind the Stats Episodes Episode guide
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How bad is fashion for the environment?
Does fashion really account for 10% of greenhouse gas emissions?
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How accurate is baby's due date?
This week we investigate how a baby's due date is calculated
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How a tick box doubled the US maternal mortality rates.
We investigate changes to the way the US gathers their maternal mortality statistics
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Hottest Easter, Insects, Scottish villages
Should we be surprised Easter Monday was the hottest recorded?
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Hospitalisation rates for children with Covid
Do 1 in 100 children who catch Covid end up hospitalised?
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Holocaust Deniers; Venezuelan Hyperinflation; Tinder Likes
Tim Harford on Holocaust deniers; food prices in Venezuela, and dating app statistics
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HIV in numbers
With the news that a baby has been 鈥榗ured鈥� of HIV what do the numbers tell us the...
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Hit movies and killer birthdays (WS)
What is the highest-earning film ever if you adjust for inflation? And are birthdays...
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High speed rail
High Speed rail - Tim Harford speaks to railway consultant Chris Stokes and Alison HS2...
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Higgs boson statistics
In the week scientists at the Large Hadron Collider announced that the most coveted in...
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Hidden Figures: The Real Story
.African American women's part in the space race of the '50s and '60s
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Heart deaths, Organised crime and Gender data gaps
Are more people dying from coronary disease? Plus how we need more economic data on women
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Heart Age Calculator; Danish Sperm Imports; Counting Goats
Tim Harford questions the usefulness of a popular heart age calculator.
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Health check
The Government says Britain's health care standards have fallen behind those of our...
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Hay Festival Special
What does it mean to say that the UK is the fifth largest economy in the world?
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Hawaiian Pizza, obesity and a second wave?
Covid-19 cases are rising in the UK - is it a sign of a second wave of the virus?
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Have the oceans become 30% more acidic?
Tim Harford asks how we measure the health of our oceans
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Have more famous people died this year?
Notable deaths, Rule Britannia and creating your own Christmas speech
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Has the US sent $50 million worth of condoms to Gaza?
Are Hamas bombing Israel with condoms sent by the US?
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Has the US really given Ukraine more aid than Europe?
Donald Trump says the US has given Ukraine more aid than Europe - what does the data say?
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Has Russia suffered a million casualties in the Ukraine war?
Making sense of the numbers around the Russian dead and wounded.
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Has Milei fixed Argentina鈥檚 inflation problem?
What falling inflation means for Milei鈥檚 austerity plan and economic 鈥渟hock鈥� measures
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Has clamping down on drugs made the Tour de France slower? (WS)
The Tour de France, we are told, has finally cleaned up its act and clamped down on of...
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Has clamping down on drugs made the Tour de France slower?
The Tour de France, we are told, has finally cleaned up its act and clamped down on of...
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Hannah Fry: Understanding the numbers of cancer
The maths professor on the choices she and others have faced after a cancer diagnosis
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Hannah Fry on using shopping data to detect ovarian cancer
The mathematician discusses a study that suggests loyalty card data could signal cancer.
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Halving inflation, Scottish tidal power and have 1 in 3 women had an abortion?
Will Rishi Sunak鈥檚 pledge to halve inflation happen?
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Gun Statistics
Tim Harford investigates the numbers in the debate on firearms deaths, and discovers...
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Gun laws and gold medals (WS)
Last week's mass-shooting at a cinema in Colorado has - not surprisingly - intensified...
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Gun laws and gold medals
Last week's mass-shooting at a cinema in Colorado has - not suprisingly - intensified...
