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
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That's not much gold
Sat 30 Mar 2013
What if a super-villain took control of the world's gold a melted it in to a cube? How...
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Can big data save lives?
Sat 23 Mar 2013
With an avalanche of 2. 5 quintillion bytes of data generated daily, could this be used...
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Are there more black men in college or prison in the US?
Sat 16 Mar 2013
Only last week Ivory Toldson heard the speaker say there are more black men in prison...
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HIV in numbers
Sat 9 Mar 2013
With the news that a baby has been 鈥榗ured鈥� of HIV what do the numbers tell us the...
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Is the Kenyan election already decided?
Sat 2 Mar 2013
Kenya votes for its next President on 4th March. The opinion polls show that it is the...
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Counting Catholics
Sat 23 Feb 2013
This week Tim Harford asks how the figure of 1. 2 billion Catholics world-wide is...
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How many people support Manchester United?
Sat 16 Feb 2013
This week Ruth Alexander looks at Manchester United versus Real Madrid in the last 16...
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The end of the Penny
Sat 9 Feb 2013
Canada has stopped distributing its smallest coin 鈥搕he one cent or the penny.
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A case of statistical significance in Greece
Sat 2 Feb 2013
This week Ruth Alexander looks at the extraordinary case of Andreas Georgiou the head...
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Fat or Fiction
Sat 26 Jan 2013
A 鈥榥ew鈥� BMI calculation has been proposed by Oxford Mathematician Professor Nick a...
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WS MoreOrLess: Indian Farmer Suicides
Sat 19 Jan 2013
This week Ruth Alexander is looking at farmer suicides in India. But is it any more in...
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Pop up economics
Wed 16 Jan 2013
Episode 1 of Tim Harford's new series, Pop Up Economics, in which he tells a live and...
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Food waste and Scrabble
Sat 12 Jan 2013
Reports this week suggest that we are wasting 50 per cent of our food globally.
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The Parable of the Ox
Fri 4 Jan 2013
What does a 'guess the weight of the ox' competition tells us about a bloated and We...
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The Parable of the Ox
Fri 4 Jan 2013
What does a 'guess the weight of the ox' competition tells us about a bloated and We...
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Numbers of 2012
Sat 29 Dec 2012
A special review of the year through the interesting, informative and idiosyncratic of...
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Numbers of 2012
Fri 28 Dec 2012
A guide to 2012 in numbers - the most informative, interesting and idiosyncratic of by...
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Gun Statistics
Fri 21 Dec 2012
Tim Harford investigates the numbers in the debate on firearms deaths, and discovers...
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Fact-checking US gun crime statistics
Fri 21 Dec 2012
Tim Harford investigates gun crime statistics in the US. Plus, why death is not always...
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WS MoreOrLess: What is "rare"?
Sat 15 Dec 2012
This week: What is 鈥榬are鈥�? When we say something is rare what do we mean? strikes...
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The Census and what does 'rare' mean?
Fri 14 Dec 2012
Why was the estimate, in 2003, for Eastern Europeans coming to the UK so wrong? Which...
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Supermarket price wars
Sun 9 Dec 2012
Tim Harford on National Literacy Trust figures and the maths of supermarket price wars.
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World Service: Africa GDP & Royal twins
Sat 8 Dec 2012
Where does Nigeria鈥檚 plan to revise its GDP leave our understanding of growth in And...
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Radio 4: Royal Twins & Autumn Statement
Fri 7 Dec 2012
In light of the Royal pregnancy Tim Harford asks what severe morning sickness tells us...
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More or Less: How reliable is Kevin Pietersen?
Sat 1 Dec 2012
Kevin Pietersen has been widely praised as one of the best England batsmen of the era...
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More or Less: Opinion polling, Kevin Pietersen, and stacking Lego
Fri 30 Nov 2012
On More or Less this week Tim Harford looks at three polls carried out to gauge the on...
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Fergie Time
Sat 24 Nov 2012
This is the first in the new series of the programme. There鈥檚 a well-established get...
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Ash Die Back and Fergie Time
Fri 23 Nov 2012
This is the first in the new series of the programme. Tim Harford has been busy some...
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Brain Food and Bacteria
Mon 19 Nov 2012
There's not an obvious link between chocolate and Nobel prizes, but this did not stop...
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Voodoo polling? Predicting the US election
Mon 12 Nov 2012
This week Ruth Alexander looks at the other winner the US elections. Blogger and of of...
