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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Troop and Casualty Numbers in Ukraine
Wed 2 Mar 2022
How reliable are the figures coming out of the conflict in Ukraine?
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Vaccinating children, lockdowns, and ebikes
Wed 23 Feb 2022
Jabs for five to 11-year-olds, lockdown effectiveness, and being green on two wheels
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Hospitalisation rates for children with Covid
Sun 20 Feb 2022
Do 1 in 100 children who catch Covid end up hospitalised?
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Questioning claims about Covid and children
Wed 16 Feb 2022
How likely are children to end up in hospital because of Covid? And how many have died?
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The prime minister in statistical bother
Wed 9 Feb 2022
Boris Johnson has been ticked off for misleading Parliament on jobs and on crime.
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Does the UK have the fastest growing economy in the G7?
Wed 2 Feb 2022
How fast is our economy growing? And what is happening with Omicron reinfections?
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Should you follow the 5 second rule? And does inflation hit the poorest harder?
Wed 26 Jan 2022
Does inflation hit poor households harder and how many people have died of Covid?
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Are female patients more likely to die if the surgeon is male?
Sun 23 Jan 2022
Should women be worried about having a male surgeon?
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Are women 32% more likely to die after operation by a male surgeon?
Wed 19 Jan 2022
Surgery death risks, Test and Trace costs in the UK and Germany, and podcast plans
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QAnon: Did 365,348 children go missing in the US in 2020?
Sun 16 Jan 2022
Fact checking a QAnon claim
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Omicron, pandemic birth rates and boosters
Wed 12 Jan 2022
An Omicron update, pandemic birth rates and the booster drive.
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How much plastic is in the Ocean and can Mr Beast make a difference?
Sun 9 Jan 2022
Looking at Mark Rober and Mr Beast鈥檚 plastics pledge.
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Will the population of Nigeria be larger than Europe鈥檚?
Sun 2 Jan 2022
Will Nigeria鈥檚 population really reach 600million?
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Does catching covid give you more immunity than being vaccinated?
Sun 12 Dec 2021
Infection vs injection: Could prior infection provide 27 times more protection?
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Does wearing a mask halve your chances of getting Covid-19?
Sun 5 Dec 2021
Is it true wearing a mask reduces Covid-19 incidence by 53%?
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Simpson鈥檚 Paradox: How to make vaccinated death figures misleading
Sun 28 Nov 2021
A tricky statistical phenomenon at play.
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The carbon cost of breakfast at COP26
Sun 14 Nov 2021
Can a vegan croissant really be worse for the environment than a bacon roll?
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Same data, opposite results. Can we trust research?
Sun 7 Nov 2021
Why the same data can produce different conclusions.
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The art of counting
Sun 31 Oct 2021
Tim Harford talks to author Deborah Stone about her book which explores counting.
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The numbers behind Squid Game
Sun 24 Oct 2021
Could you survive a round in Squid Game, and how many have watched it?
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The prize-winning economics of migration and the minimum wage
Sun 17 Oct 2021
A look at the work of this year鈥檚 winners of the most prestigious prize in economics.
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Bonus episode: the first ever More or Less
Thu 7 Oct 2021
A chat with More or Less's founding producer and presenter plus the first episode in full
