More or Less: Behind the Stats Episodes Episode guide
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WS MoreOrLess: Death Penalty
Death Row exoneration statistics. Recently it鈥檚 been claimed that for every nine in...
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WS MoreOrLess: Creativity and Mental Illness
Are creative people more likely to be mentally ill, and has Cuba wiped out child hunger?
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WS MoreOrLess: Counting the Dead in Iraq
In Iraq, estimates of the death count since the war started 2003 range from 100,000 to...
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WS MoreOrLess: Could statistics cure cancer?
Ruth Alexander speaks to a statistician at the forefront of cancer research, Professor...
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WS MoreOrLess: Climate Change
Did climate change contribute to the war in Syria?
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WS MoreOrLess: China's One Child Policy
As China ends its one child policy what has been its impact? Ruth Alexander investigates.
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WS MoreOrLess: China Stock Market Crash
The Chinese stock market may have crashed but was it really 鈥楤lack Monday鈥�?
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WS MoreOrLess: Caps off to Rooney
England captain Wayne Rooney made his 100th appearance last weekend but former England...
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WS MoreOrLess: Brazil鈥檚 Maths Superstar
The Man Who Counted, a book of 'Arabic' mathematical tales written by Middle Eastern...
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WS MoreOrLess: Black prisoners in the US
Oscar-winner John Legend said that there are more black men "under correctional in the...
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WS MoreOrLess: Big Numbers
How computers are fooled by big numbers. Chris Baraniuk, technology journalist, talks...
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WS MoreOrLess: Big Data
Big data has been enjoying a lot of hype, with promises it will help deliver from to...
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WS MoreOrLess: Bad Luck and Cancer
Most cancers are caused by "bad luck" according to reports of a new study.
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WS MoreOrLess: Are Tall People More Likely to Get Cancer?
Are tall people really more likely to get cancer? Ruth Alexander looks at a new study.
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WS MoreOrLess: Are 95% of Terrorism Victims Muslim?
In the wake of the Paris killings, an imam in Paris told the 蜜芽传媒 that most terrorism...
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WS MoreOrLess: Anti-Semitism
Is anti-semitism on the rise? Ruth Alexander and James Fletcher look at the numbers, a...
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WS MoreOrLess: An apple-a-day
An apple-a-day will actually keep the doctors away, according to a study in the of the...
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WS MoreOrLess: Alcohol risk
Do two large glasses of wine triple your risk of mouth cancer, as claimed on a health...
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WS MoreOrLess: 'Spurious Correlations'
Is the divorce rate in the US state of Maine linked to margarine consumption? It's one...
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WS MoreOrLess: '鈥楽ympathy鈥� for jihadis
Are claims that one in five British Muslims 鈥榮ympathise with jihadis鈥� correct?
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WS MoreOrLess: Neknomination Outbreak
The rise and fall of an online epidemic: How studying the spread of infectious the out...
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WS MoreOrLess: Modern Slavery
Are there 21 million slaves in the world today? Director of 12 Years a Slave, Steve at...
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WS More or Less: You have 15,000 likes!
A listener doubts her popularity on the dating app Tinder. We investigate the numbers.
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WS More or Less: Yellow cards for Christmas
Are footballers trying to get suspended for Christmas?
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WS More or Less: Wrestlers - dying too young?
Are WWE stars more likely to die sooner than their non-wrestling peers?
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WS More or Less: Worm wars
Are mass deworming projects a good idea?
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WS More or Less: Women, the Oscars and the Bechdel Test
Ninety years鈥� worth of Best Picture winning films under the spotlight
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WS More or Less: Will one in four people develop a mental health problem?
Is there evidence that one in four people will develop a mental health problem?
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WS More or Less: Will Bitcoin use more electricity than the United States?
Measuring the energy used to keep the cryptocurrency secure.
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WS More or Less: Why London鈥檚 Murder Rate is Being Compared to New York鈥檚
Finding out if London is now more deadly than New York.
