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More or Less: Behind the Stats Episodes

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    Grenfell Tower's Death Toll

    The difficulties of finding the true number of people who died in the fire.

  2. Greedy jobs and the gender pay gap

    Tim Harford discusses the work of Nobel Economics prize winner Claudia Goldin

  3. Greece Special

    Tim Harford and the More or Less team look at the numbers behind the Greek crisis.

  4. Grammar Schools

    Do selective schools improve grades and improve social mobility?

  5. Government waste

    In More or Less this week: Government waste, a logic puzzle, the statistics of spying,...

  6. Glasgow vs Rwanda

    Could life expectancy in some parts of Glasgow be worse than in Rwanda?

  7. Getting Creative with Statistics

    How big are your testicles and what does that mean?

  8. Germany’s excess deaths, Eurovision and teacher shortages

    Did Germany really fare worse than the UK in the pandemic?

  9. Gender Pay Gaps and How to Learn a Language

    Why are women paid less than men in specific industries and occupations?

  10. Gender Pay Gap

    Making sense of the difference between men's and women's pay

  11. Gay Britain

    Tim Harford and the More or Less team examine the micromort measure of risk and on...

  12. Freedom in Numbers

    How many people in the world live in freedom? The ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½'s Freedom 2014 season got Tim or...

  13. Formula 1 racing risk

    'I accept every time I get in my car, there's a 20% chance I could die'.

  14. Forecasting rain, teabags and voter ID trials

    How to read the weather forecast, plus measuring the amount of tea we drink.

  15. Football Ranking Mysteries Explained

    Ahead of the 2014 World Cup draw next Friday, we look at world football rankings.

  16. Food waste and Scrabble

    Reports this week suggest that we are wasting 50 per cent of our food globally.

  17. Food prices, net migration and beef about beef

    Does Britain really have the most affordable food in Europe?

  18. Food Bank Britain

    Food banks are being used by a million people in Britain according to recent newspaper...

  19. Florence Nightingale and how she visualised data

    Tim Harford discusses the power of the nurse statistician’s groundbreaking diagrams

  20. Flood Defence Spending

    Is there a north-south divide in the amount of money spent on flood defences in England?

  21. Fit for work or at deaths door?

    Are thousands dying after being declared 'fit for work' by the government? Is sugar bad?

  22. Finding Mexico City’s real death toll

    How two amateur data detectives revealed the pandemic’s impact.

  23. FIFA World Cup Extravaganza

    How the ‘beautiful game’ has changed…through numbers.

  24. Fertility: when is too late?

    Psychologist Jean Twenge argues that women in their late thirties shouldn’t be as of...

  25. Fertility rates: baby boom or bust?

    Fertility rates around the world

  26. Fergie Time

    This is the first in the new series of the programme. There’s a well-established get...

  27. Female Drink Drivers

    The Police Federation says female drivers aren’t heeding the drink drive warnings.

  28. Federer’s 54%: Tennis stats explained

    How Federer became the best in the world winning just over half the points he played

  29. Fathers and babies

    Have only 1% of men taken the option of shared parental leave?

  30. Fat or Fiction

    A ‘new’ BMI calculation has been proposed by Oxford Mathematician Professor Nick a...

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