More or Less: Behind the Stats Episodes Episode guide
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BONUS PODCAST: Economics with Subtitles - How Buying Cocaine Helps the Government
The surprising story of GDP and whether it's time to change how we measure our economy
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Bonus Episode: Understand the Economy
Tim Harford brings you the first episode of his new podcast and explains inflation
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Bonus episode: the first ever More or Less
A chat with More or Less's founding producer and presenter plus the first episode in full
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Bonus episode: The Autism Curve
The first episode of a new 蜜芽传媒 series investigating the steep rise in autism diagnoses.
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Bonus episode: Daniel Kahneman on Thinking, Fast and Slow
In an episode of More or Less from 2012, Daniel Kahneman explains his big ideas.
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Bolton vaccines, Yorkshire versus Scotland and the average gamer
Were tens of thousands of people getting their jab in Bolton every single day?
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Bolivia: Can statistics help detect electoral fraud?
We look at the numbers and statistics from Bolivia鈥檚 disputed presidential election.
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Birds, Mozart, austerity, Thatcher
Birds + windows =? The 蜜芽传媒 Quiz show The Unbelievable Truth reckons that more than 2...
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Billionaires versus the world
Does it matter that 62 people now own as much wealth as half of the world鈥檚 population?
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Biggest Movies
Jurassic World took $511m in its first weekend. Why have recent films done so well?
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Big numbers
More or Less examines this week's claims and counter-claims about VAT, exposes some -...
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Bernie Sanders and the cost of having a baby
Did Bernie Sanders get the cost of giving birth right?
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Ben Bernanke and the magic of banking
Tim Harford explains the work of this year鈥檚 Nobel Economics Prize winners
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Belarus鈥� contested election
Tim Harford looks at the numbers behind the widely questioned election result
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Bayes: the clergyman whose maths changed the world
How an obscure theory came into fashion.
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Back to school
More or Less looks at how maths is taught in schools today and it asks what the of the...
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Avengers - Should we reverse the snap?
Exploring the economic impact of losing half the world鈥檚 population
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Australian Animal Deaths, Carbon Emissions, Election Mystery
How many animals have died in Australia and how many Labour voters went Conservative?
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Austerity: a spreadsheet error?
Tim Harford tells the story of the student who uncovered a mistake in a famous paper...
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Austerity, border queues and bank holidays (R4)
Are we witnessing a grand economic experiment playing out between Britain and the How...
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Austerity Deaths, C-Sections and being struck by lightning
Has Austerity caused 120 thousand deaths in the UK and does God hate men?
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Auction Theory - Paul Milgrom and Robert Wilson
This year鈥檚 Nobel memorial prize winners for economics and their work on auction theory.
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Asymptomatic Covid19 Cases
How many Covid19 cases are truly asymptomatic?
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Ash Die Back and Fergie Time
This is the first in the new series of the programme. Tim Harford has been busy some...
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Artificial (not so) Intelligence
Is the problem with AI its lack of intelligence?
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Are young people more single than ever before?
How to define and measure being single 鈥� and are dating apps to blame?
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Are you related to Edward III - and Danny Dyer?
What are the odds of being related to a medieval king? and how many cows for a fiver?
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Are women in the UK the biggest binge drinkers in the world?
Checking out stats on boozing Brits and fishing fleets in the South China Sea
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Are women 32% more likely to die after operation by a male surgeon?
Surgery death risks, Test and Trace costs in the UK and Germany, and podcast plans
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Are women 14 times more likely to die in natural disasters?
We unpick the idea that women outnumber men by 14 to 1 as casualties of natural disasters
