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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WS More or Less: When Companies Track Your Life
Fri 17 Jun 2016
How are companies using our personal data?
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The Referendum by Numbers: Trade
Fri 17 Jun 2016
Tim Harford asks if the UK would be better off in or out of the EU when it comes to trade
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The Referendum by Numbers: Regulation
Thu 16 Jun 2016
Tim Harford on how much red tape from the EU costs and what might happen if the UK leaves
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The Referendum by Numbers: Law
Wed 15 Jun 2016
Tim Harford looks at how much of Britain's law comes from the EU.
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The Referendum by Numbers: Immigration
Tue 14 Jun 2016
Tim Harford on costs and benefits of EU migrants and what might happen if Britain left.
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The Referendum by Numbers: The Cost of EU Membership
Mon 13 Jun 2016
Tim Harford asks how much would be saved and what would be lost if Britain left the EU?
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WS More or Less: Refugee Camp Statistics
Fri 27 May 2016
Is it true that the average stay in a refugee camp is 17 years?
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WS More or Less: The World's Most Profitable Product
Fri 20 May 2016
Is the iPhone the most profitable product in history? What are the other contenders?
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WS More or Less: The world鈥檚 most diverse city
Fri 13 May 2016
Is it true that London is the most diverse city in the world?
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WS More or Less: Leicester City football fluke?
Mon 9 May 2016
The statistics behind the English Premier League鈥檚 surprise winners
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The most profitable product in history
Fri 6 May 2016
Can the iPhone claim this accolade? Plus, the statistics behind Leicester City's success
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WS More or Less: Simpson鈥檚 Paradox
Fri 29 Apr 2016
We explore how statistics can support two seemingly contradictory results.
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WS More or Less: Most Expensive Building
Mon 25 Apr 2016
How much to build The Great Pyramid, a nuclear power station, or an airport?
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WS More or Less: The life expectancy of a Pope
Mon 18 Apr 2016
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 story of average
Mon 11 Apr 2016
How astronomers introduced the world to the average.
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WS More or Less: The Great EU Cabbage Myth
Tue 5 Apr 2016
Does the European Union dedicate 26,911 words to cabbage regulation?
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The Great EU Cabbage Myth
Mon 4 Apr 2016
Does the European Union dedicate 26,911 words to cabbage regulation?
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WSMoreOrLess: Safe drinking
Thu 24 Mar 2016
UK Alcohol guidelines recommend drinking less 鈥� but do the numbers support them?
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WSMoreOrLess: Mobiles or lightbulbs
Fri 18 Mar 2016
Are there more mobile phones than lightbulbs in Uganda? And thyroid cancer in Fukushima.
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WSMoreOrLess: Can we trust food surveys?
Fri 11 Mar 2016
The pitfalls of nutrition science - how do really know what people are eating?
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WSMoreOrLess: Fact checking The Big Short
Fri 4 Mar 2016
Is it true that 鈥渆very one percent unemployment goes up, 40,000 people die"?
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WSMoreOrLess: Antibiotics and the problem of the broken market
Fri 26 Feb 2016
The world needs new antibiotics so how do we entice big pharma back in to the market?
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WSMoreOrLess: When 拢10,000 isn鈥檛 a good incentive
Fri 19 Feb 2016
Could no prize have been a better way to motivate snooker player Ronnie O鈥橲ullivan?
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WSMoreOrLess: Fishy numbers?
Fri 12 Feb 2016
Will there be more plastic than fish in the sea by 2050?
