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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Where have Cuba鈥檚 people gone?
Sat 31 Aug 2024
We investigate the collapse in the Caribbean island鈥檚 population
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Do we eat a credit card's worth of microplastic each week?
Sat 24 Aug 2024
We look at whether humans really ingest five grams of microplastic on a weekly basis
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Are companies making more money from their customers?
Sat 17 Aug 2024
We investigate claims mark-ups are larger than ever
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Is planet Earth getting greener?
Sat 10 Aug 2024
Jordan Peterson says Earth has greened by 20% in 20 years. Is he right?
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Does a language die every two weeks?
Sat 3 Aug 2024
Languages are disappearing. We investigate claims of how often this happens.
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Are women 14 times more likely to die in natural disasters?
Sat 27 Jul 2024
We unpick the idea that women outnumber men by 14 to 1 as casualties of natural disasters
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Is increasing turbulence making flying more dangerous?
Sat 20 Jul 2024
Exploring the link between bumpy flights and climate change
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Federer鈥檚 54%: Tennis stats explained
Sat 13 Jul 2024
How Federer became the best in the world winning just over half the points he played
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The magic of trigonometry
Sat 6 Jul 2024
Tim Harford interviews Matt Parker on his latest book 鈥楲ove Triangle鈥�
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Election endings, tennis and meeting men in finance
Wed 3 Jul 2024
Exit polls, election claims, and a 54% chance of winning a point in tennis
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How a tick box doubled the US maternal mortality rates.
Sat 29 Jun 2024
We investigate changes to the way the US gathers their maternal mortality statistics
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Election claims and erection claims
Wed 26 Jun 2024
What did Liz Truss do to mortgage rates? Do erections use a litre of blood?
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Do 鈥榩ig butchering鈥� cyber scams make as much as half Cambodia鈥檚 GDP?
Sat 22 Jun 2024
We investigate the money made by an international cybercrime operation
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Worse mortgages, better readers, and potholes on the moon
Wed 19 Jun 2024
We check some of the numbers that are flying about in the election campaign
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Leaflets, taxes, oil workers and classrooms
Wed 12 Jun 2024
We look at bad graphs, oil rig extrapolations and pupil populations
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Why medical error is not the third leading cause of death in the US
Sat 8 Jun 2024
Investigating how many deaths are caused by mistakes by doctors and nurses
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Debate, Reform, tax evasion and ants
Wed 5 Jun 2024
Fact-checking the leaders' debate, tax evasion savings and the weight of ants
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Data for India
Sat 1 Jun 2024
Changing India in numbers: what type of country will the next administration lead?
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UK growth, prisons and Swiftonomics
Wed 29 May 2024
Is the UK economy growing faster than Germany, France and the US?
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Is intermittent fasting going to kill you?
Sat 25 May 2024
Investigating research which suggested time restricted eating increased the risk of death.
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MP misconduct, NHS waiting lists and gold (gold)
Wed 22 May 2024
Will it take 685 years to clear the NHS waiting list? Are 10% of MPs under investigation?
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Are falling marriage rates causing happiness to fall in the US?
Sat 18 May 2024
Investigating the relationship between matrimony and melancholy.
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Is reading for pleasure the single biggest factor in how well a child does in life?
Sat 11 May 2024
What research says about the connection between reading and success in later life.
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Do one in five young Americans think the holocaust is a myth?
Sat 4 May 2024
How problems with opt-in polling can lead to controversial headlines
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Has Milei fixed Argentina鈥檚 inflation problem?
Fri 26 Apr 2024
What falling inflation means for Milei鈥檚 austerity plan and economic 鈥渟hock鈥� measures
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98%: Is misinformation being spread about a review of trans youth medicine?
Sat 20 Apr 2024
Investigating claims that the Cass Review ignored valuable evidence
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Is loneliness as bad for you as smoking?
Sat 6 Apr 2024
The connection between being alone and an early death
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Remembering Daniel Kahneman
Sat 30 Mar 2024
Tim Harford on the great social scientist, who has died at the age of 90
