More or Less: Behind the Stats Episodes Episode guide
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African Trade Tariffs; Alcohol Safe Limits; President Trump's Popularity
Tim Harford fact checks EU trade deals with Africa, and whether one drink is one too many
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Abortion, modern slavery, math versus maths
The British abortion statistics gaining attention in Ireland's referendum debate
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A&E, and the chances of having twins
A&E waiting times have been making the headlines - Tim Harford takes a look at some of...
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A&E waiting times
The NHS in England has missed its four-hour A&E waiting time target with performance a...
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A&E delays and deaths, religious identity in N Ireland and naming the monster numbers
How many people may be dying because of treatment delays in the NHS?
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A-levels, drowning and dress sizes
Are boys getting more top A Level grades than girls? Plus why are dress sizes so weird?
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A-level algorithms, poker and buses
We unpick the A-level algoshambles and discover what poker teaches us about statistics.
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A TikTok tale
How a well-meaning TikTok disrupted 4,600 studies
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A short history of probability
Gamblers, millionaires and annuities
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A short history of data
How the evolution of data over centuries has shaped today鈥檚 world
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A pocket-size history of the calculator
Tim Harford explores the history of calculators from clockwork to the Kashio brothers
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A no-frills life, automated fact-checking and Lord-of-the-Rings maths
What would have been the most efficient way to get to Mordor?
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A new Covid-19 drug and a second wave
Tim Harford looks into why protests haven鈥檛 led to a spike in Covid-19 cases
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A groundbreaking new proof for Pythagoras鈥� Theorem?
Two high school students say they鈥檝e discovered a new trigonometric proof for the theorem
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A grand economic experiment? (WS)
Are we witnessing a grand economic experiment being played out between Europe, trying...
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A Girl's First Time, Shark's Stomachs, Prime numbers
First sexual experience - checking the facts.
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A Euro Debt Odyssey
In this week's More or Less: a Euro debt odyssey, the placebo effect and 70 years of...
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A case of statistical significance in Greece
This week Ruth Alexander looks at the extraordinary case of Andreas Georgiou the head...
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A boy meets girl meets stats story
A data scientist takes on rom com films to see how women in STEM are represented.
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A $220 billion World Cup?
Has hosting the FIFA football World Cup really cost Qatar $220bn?
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98%: Is misinformation being spread about a review of trans youth medicine?
Investigating claims that the Cass Review ignored valuable evidence
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60 Harvests and statistically savvy parrots
Can there really only be 60 harvests left in Earth's soil?
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2011 in numbers
A guide to interesting, informative or just plain idiosyncratic numbers of the year.
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2010 in numbers
Tim Harford and the More or Less team explore 2010 in numbers. Happy New Year to all...
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20 Apr 12
We investigate the height of North Koreans, the width of police officers and rate of...
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20 Apr 12
Is the rate of species extinction exaggerated - or even unknowable? Producer: Richard...
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100,000 Christian martyrs?
It is claimed an average of 100,000 Christians have died because of their faith every...
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03 Sep 2010
How reliable are life expectancy figures? Can cycling ever be safer than driving? And,...
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(WS) Weight of the world
How fat could the global population become? Plus, Angela Saini considers whether could...
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(WS) Chance encounters
Is the likelihood of bumping into your boss on holiday greater than you think? Angela...
