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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Polls, nuns and life partners
Fri 1 May 2015
On the eve of the UK's general election, Tim Harford takes a look at what polling data...
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UK Election Podcast 3
Fri 24 Apr 2015
Are we witnessing a jobs 鈥榤iracle鈥�? Also under scrutiny - Scotland鈥檚 deficit; a...
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WS MoreOrLess: Xenophobia in South Africa
Fri 24 Apr 2015
Are migrants 鈥榮tealing鈥� jobs; does South Africa have more asylum seekers than any...
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UK election podcast 2
Fri 17 Apr 2015
Fact-checking the politicians during the election campaign on NHS funding; rail fares...
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WS MoreOrLess: Liver Transplant.
Fri 17 Apr 2015
A young listener who needs a liver transplant has received an offer from his brother a...
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UK election podcast 1
Mon 13 Apr 2015
Can you trust the figures given to you by the political parties during the UK's We and...
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WS MoreOrLess: The Ignorance Test
Fri 10 Apr 2015
Professor Hans Rosling - perhaps best-described as a kind of international development...
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WS MoreOrLess: Maths and Chess
Sat 4 Apr 2015
Is it really true that ability in mathematics and chess are somehow linked? Tim pits a...
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WS MoreOrLess: How safe is flying?
Sat 28 Mar 2015
The Germanwings A320 tragedy, in which 150 people died, is the latest in a series of...
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Does Breastfeeding Increase IQ?
Sat 21 Mar 2015
A major 30-year study claims to show breastfed babies become more intelligent, higher...
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WS MoreOrLess: Measuring World Health
Sat 14 Mar 2015
Babies born in Rwanda are likely to live healthier lives than those in the most 10% of...
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WS MoreOrLess: The future of food
Sat 7 Mar 2015
"In the next 40 years, humans will need to produce more food that they did in the a of...
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WS MoreOrLess: Black prisoners in the US
Sat 28 Feb 2015
Oscar-winner John Legend said that there are more black men "under correctional in the...
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WS MoreOrLess: Sleeping: the 8-hour myth
Sat 21 Feb 2015
It鈥檚 often said that we should all be aiming to get eight hours of sleep a night but...
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The mathematical secrets to relationships
Sat 14 Feb 2015
How maths can help you find love, and hold on to it. Plus, we hear a collection of our...
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WS MoreOrLess: Is strenuous jogging bad for you?
Sat 7 Feb 2015
Tim Harford asks whether claims that keen runners might be damaging their health are...
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Is strenuous jogging bad for you?
Fri 6 Feb 2015
Tim Harford on claims that keen runners might be damaging their health.
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WS MoreOrLess: The maths of dating
Sat 31 Jan 2015
How to use mathematics to find your life partner. Plus: what are the chances that two...
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Cameron鈥檚 1000 jobs
Fri 30 Jan 2015
Fact-checking the Conservatives' employment claims; the price of milk; unhappy how to...
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WS MoreOrLess: Global Wealth
Sat 24 Jan 2015
Who is in the world's wealthiest elite, and where do they live? Which are the world's...
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Is anti-Semitism widespread in the UK?
Fri 23 Jan 2015
Are the majority of hate crimes in the UK directed against Jewish people? Plus: who 1%...
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WS MoreOrLess: Are 95% of Terrorism Victims Muslim?
Sat 17 Jan 2015
In the wake of the Paris killings, an imam in Paris told the 大象传媒 that most terrorism...
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WS MoreOrLess: Bad Luck and Cancer
Sat 10 Jan 2015
Most cancers are caused by "bad luck" according to reports of a new study.
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A&E waiting times
Fri 9 Jan 2015
The NHS in England has missed its four-hour A&E waiting time target with performance a...
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WS MoreOrLess: Numbers of the Year part 3.
Sat 3 Jan 2015
What is the most important number in the world? Robert Peston tells us and Helen Joyce...
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Numbers of the Year 2014.
Fri 2 Jan 2015
Tim Harford and guests look back at some of the weird and wonderful numbers of 2014.
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WS MoreOrLess: Numbers of the Year part 2.
Sat 27 Dec 2014
How optimistic are people about the future? The 大象传媒's Evan Davis tells More or Less as...
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WS MoreOrLess: Numbers of the Year part 1.
Sat 20 Dec 2014
What is so special about 39,222 Mexican teachers? In the first of three episodes back...
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WS MoreOrLess: Soviet World War Deaths
Fri 12 Dec 2014
Did almost 80% of the males born in the Soviet Union in 1923 not survive World War as...
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WS MoreOrLess: Zimbabwe's Economy
Fri 5 Dec 2014
Zimbabwe鈥檚 budget provided a fascinating insight into the country鈥檚 economy last week.
