More or Less Episodes Episode guide
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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’s inflation problem?
What falling inflation means for Milei’s austerity plan and economic “shock” measures
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Has Donald Trump ended seven 'unendable' wars?
Trump’s peace deals, Labour’s GDP claim and university league tables
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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’s pledge to halve inflation happen?
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Halloween special: How many people did the real Dracula impale?
Looking at the math's behind the myth
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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...
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Grenfell Tower's Death Toll
The difficulties of finding the true number of people who died in the fire.
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Greedy jobs and the gender pay gap
Tim Harford discusses the work of Nobel Economics prize winner Claudia Goldin
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Greece Special
Tim Harford and the More or Less team look at the numbers behind the Greek crisis.
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Grammar Schools
Do selective schools improve grades and improve social mobility?
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Government waste
In More or Less this week: Government waste, a logic puzzle, the statistics of spying,...
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Glasgow vs Rwanda
Could life expectancy in some parts of Glasgow be worse than in Rwanda?
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Getting Creative with Statistics
How big are your testicles and what does that mean?
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Germany’s excess deaths, Eurovision and teacher shortages
Did Germany really fare worse than the UK in the pandemic?
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Gender Pay Gaps and How to Learn a Language
Why are women paid less than men in specific industries and occupations?
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Gender Pay Gap
Making sense of the difference between men's and women's pay
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Gay Britain
Tim Harford and the More or Less team examine the micromort measure of risk and on...
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Freedom in Numbers
How many people in the world live in freedom? The ѿý's Freedom 2014 season got Tim or...
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Formula 1 racing risk
'I accept every time I get in my car, there's a 20% chance I could die'.
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Forecasting rain, teabags and voter ID trials
How to read the weather forecast, plus measuring the amount of tea we drink.