More or Less: Behind the Stats Episodes Available now
How do you make something 10-times more lethal?
Plus, the Sycamore Gap tree, pensioner-worker ratios and yoga v fishers
Is the world’s population being miscounted?
Investigating if the global population is really 2 billion higher than previously thought
Does the average American have fewer than three friends?
Plus, skilled migrants, preventing Alzheimer’s and Robert Prevost on God and probability
Factchecking the Trump administration’s Autism claims
Why has the rate of autism risen so dramatically in the last 30 years?
Is the UN underestimating the global fall in fertility?
How one graph shows the conservative side of the United Nations’ population estimates
How dead is the internet?
We investigate the claim that bots make up 50% of internet traffic
Warren Buffett’s brilliant bets
How retiring Berkshire Hathaway boss Warren Buffett made his money and made a point
Bonus episode: The Autism Curve
The first episode of a new ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ series investigating the steep rise in autism diagnoses.
Donald Trump: 100 days fact-check
Working out the reality behind President Trump’s claims on immigration, fentanyl and eggs
Are 80% of women really only attracted to 20% of men?
Dispelling an incel myth that featured in the Netflix drama Adolescence