More or Less: Behind the Stats Podcast
Tim Harford and the More or Less team try to make sense of the statistics which surround us. From 大象传媒 Radio 4
Episodes to download
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Tracking terror suspects
Fri 7 Feb 2020
Costing counter-terrorism, interrogating tomatoes, the UK's reading age, politics and GDP
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Coronavirus, emotions and guns.
Fri 31 Jan 2020
Fact checking claims about coronavirus and whether more guns equal fewer homicides.
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Netflix and Chill
Fri 24 Jan 2020
The carbon consequence of streaming, stats on sepsis and stretching Bill Bryson to Pluto.
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WS More or Less: Japan鈥檚 99% Conviction Rate
Sat 18 Jan 2020
Quantifying justice in Japan with Tim Harford.
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Weighing the Cost of Brexit
Fri 17 Jan 2020
The cost of Brexit, alligator speed and Liverpool FC's luck
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WS More or Less: Bushfire mystery
Sat 11 Jan 2020
Have a billion animals died in Australia鈥檚 fires? And which ones are likely to survive?
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Australian Animal Deaths, Carbon Emissions, Election Mystery
Fri 10 Jan 2020
How many animals have died in Australia and how many Labour voters went Conservative?
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C-sections and sharks
Sat 4 Jan 2020
Hospital births in China and whether it鈥檚 true 50% are delivered by caesarean section
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Presidential candidates and dementia
Sat 28 Dec 2019
The health risks some of the frontrunners in the US presidential race face
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The Simpsons and maths
Fri 20 Dec 2019
We explore the maths secrets of The Simpsons on their 30th anniversary.
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Election Special (2/2)
Tue 10 Dec 2019
Labour's spending plans, Conservatives claims on homelessness, the SNP's education record
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Election Special 1/2
Tue 3 Dec 2019
50,000 nurses? 40 hospitals? Corporate tax rises? Tim Harford looks at Election pledges.
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Bolivia: Can statistics help detect electoral fraud?
Fri 15 Nov 2019
We look at the numbers and statistics from Bolivia鈥檚 disputed presidential election.
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Reducing your risk of death
Fri 8 Nov 2019
Can running and owning a dog reduce your risk of an early death?
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Unbelievable: The forgotten rape data
Fri 1 Nov 2019
How shelved data from rape cases in America is helping the police catch criminals now.
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Edith Abbott and crime statistics
Mon 28 Oct 2019
Social worker and economist Edith Abbott and her contribution to crime statistics.
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Esther Duflo and women in economics
Fri 18 Oct 2019
Discussing Esther Duflo, Abhijit Banerjee and Michael Kremer鈥檚 economics Nobel Prize.
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The Extra Episode: Minimum wage, drinking in Scotland and identical twins.
Fri 11 Oct 2019
Exploring how long one identical twin lives after the other twin dies.
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WS More or Less: Does San Francisco have more rough sleepers than Britain?
Mon 7 Oct 2019
Are the shocking statistics true? and how do you count people who don't wish to be found?
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New hospitals promised, aid to Ukraine, and bacon sandwiches
Fri 4 Oct 2019
Dissecting the government鈥檚 hospitals announcement and President Trump鈥檚 Ukraine claims.
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WS More or Less: Who fought in World War 1?
Mon 30 Sep 2019
Were a third of those that fought for Britain in WW1 black or Asian?
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Austerity Deaths, C-Sections and being struck by lightning
Fri 27 Sep 2019
Has Austerity caused 120 thousand deaths in the UK and does God hate men?
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WS More or Less: Peaty v. Bolt: Which is the greatest world record?
Mon 23 Sep 2019
Using statistics to compare world records in athletics and swimming.
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Dementia, inflation and shark deaths
Fri 20 Sep 2019
Health risks for Presidential hopefuls, falling inflation, shark deaths and salary claims
