More or Less: Behind the Stats Episodes Episode guide
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WS More or Less: Why January makes us want to scream
Blue Monday and Oxfam's wealth of billionaires- the stories that come around every year
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WS More or Less: Why are Lesbians More Likely to Divorce than Gay Men?
Tim Harford talks to economist Marina Ashdade about same-sex divorce statistics.
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WS More or Less: Why are Hollywood actresses paid less than men?
Top Hollywood actresses have complained that they are paid less than their male co-stars
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WS More or Less: Why Albums are Getting Longer
More or less finds out the numbers that are changing modern music.
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WS More or Less: Who Won the US Presidential Debate?
Polling on the Clinton-Trump TV showdown 鈥� and why not all polls are equal.
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WS More or Less: Who fought in World War 1?
Were a third of those that fought for Britain in WW1 black or Asian?
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WS More or Less: When maths mistakes really matter
Tim Harford talks to Matt Parker on how simple maths mistakes can cause big problems.
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WS More or Less: When Companies Track Your Life
How are companies using our personal data?
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WS More or Less: What happened last night in Sweden?
What happened last night in Sweden?
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WS More or Less: Wedding gift economics
How much should spend when a couple get married?
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WS More or Less: Volcanoes versus humans
Does Mount Etna produce more carbon emissions than humans? We check the numbers.
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WS More or Less: Violence, shootings and the police in the US
Tim Harford investigates the numbers surrounding police shootings in the USA.
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WS More or Less: Uganda鈥檚 refugees
Has Uganda accepted more refugees, daily than some European countries in an entire year?
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WS More or Less: Tulipmania mythology
What is the truth behind the 17th Century Dutch craze for Tulips?
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WS More or Less: Trump鈥檚 crime claims
Are some US inner cities more dangerous than Afghanistan?
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WS More or Less: Trump and the Puerto Rico Death Toll
How can we calculate excess mortality after a natural disaster?
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WS More or Less: The world鈥檚 most diverse city
Is it true that London is the most diverse city in the world?
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WS More or Less: The World's Most Profitable Product
Is the iPhone the most profitable product in history? What are the other contenders?
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WS More or Less: The Winter Olympics
Which is the most successful country? Plus the chances of a dead heat.
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WS More or Less: The things we fail to see
The hidden influences that a make a big difference to the way the world works.
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WS More or Less: The Sustainable Development Goals 鈥� are there just too many?
Is there a better way of looking at the Sustainable Development Goals?
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WS More or Less: The story of average
How astronomers introduced the world to the average.
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WS More or Less: The Safest Car in the World?
A listener asks whether his Volvo is the safest car on the road?
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WS More or Less: The Maths of Dating
How to use mathematics to find your partner. And, how reliable are pregnancy due dates?
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WS More or Less: The Mathematics of Fever
We look at the numbers behind body temperature 鈥� what is normal?
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WS More or Less: The life expectancy of a Pope
Statistics show that the Head of the Catholic Church can expect to live to an old age
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WS More or Less: The Ignorance Test
How much do you know about the world?
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WS More or Less: The Great EU Cabbage Myth
Does the European Union dedicate 26,911 words to cabbage regulation?
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WS More or Less: The death rate of white Americans 鈥� What鈥檚 going on?
Are middle-aged white Americans dying younger than other groups?
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WS More or Less: The Attention Span of a Goldfish
Are our attention spans now shorter than a goldfish's?
