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More or Less: Behind the Stats Episodes

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    Are 672 billion pounds of corn eaten in the US every year?

    A lot of corn is eaten in the United States, but is it really 2.5kg per person per day?

  2. Are 4% of young women in the UK on OnlyFans?

    Plus, asylum seeker hotel bill, Scottish water use and 1950s childcare claim

  3. Are 150 year olds getting social security payments?

    Is this 鈥榯he biggest fraud in the whole of history鈥�?

  4. Ants and Algorithms

    David Sumpter describes the algorithms ruling the world

  5. Antibody tests, early lockdown advice and European deaths

    Are more people are dying of Covid-19 in the UK than all the EU countries put together?

  6. Angelina Jolie鈥檚 87% cancer risk

    As Angelina Jolie announces that an 87% cancer risk has prompted her to have a double...

  7. Angelina Jolie鈥檚 87% cancer risk

    As Angelina Jolie announces that an 87% cancer risk has prompted her to have a double...

  8. Ambulance response times, teacher pay and Irish pubs

    How long are people really waiting when they call 999 for an ambulance?

  9. Amazon fires, state pension and American burgers

    Are forest fires in Brazil the worst in recent times? What is the state pension worth?

  10. Amazon fires, state pension and American burgers

    Are forest fires in Brazil the worst in recent times? What is the state pension worth?

  11. Alzheimers, Psychology science, John Conway, Red cards, Decimate

    Tim Harford asks whether one in three people born in the UK this year will get Alzheimer's

  12. 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

  13. Abortion, modern slavery, math versus maths

    The British abortion statistics gaining attention in Ireland's referendum debate

  14. 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...

  15. A&E waiting times

    The NHS in England has missed its four-hour A&E waiting time target with performance a...

  16. 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?

  17. A-levels, drowning and dress sizes

    Are boys getting more top A Level grades than girls? Plus why are dress sizes so weird?

  18. A-level algorithms, poker and buses

    We unpick the A-level algoshambles and discover what poker teaches us about statistics.

  19. A TikTok tale

    How a well-meaning TikTok disrupted 4,600 studies

  20. A short history of probability

    Gamblers, millionaires and annuities

  21. A short history of data

    How the evolution of data over centuries has shaped today鈥檚 world

  22. A pocket-size history of the calculator

    Tim Harford explores the history of calculators from clockwork to the Kashio brothers

  23. 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?

  24. 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

  25. 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

  26. A grand economic experiment? (WS)

    Are we witnessing a grand economic experiment being played out between Europe, trying...

  27. A Girl's First Time, Shark's Stomachs, Prime numbers

    First sexual experience - checking the facts.

  28. A Euro Debt Odyssey

    In this week's More or Less: a Euro debt odyssey, the placebo effect and 70 years of...

  29. A case of statistical significance in Greece

    This week Ruth Alexander looks at the extraordinary case of Andreas Georgiou the head...

  30. 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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