More or Less: Behind the Stats Episodes Episode guide
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Brain Culture Part 1
In a change to the usual format, we are podcasting Matthew Taylor’s series “Brain...
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Bonus Podcast: Professor John Horton Conway
Mathematician John Conway died in April as a result of Covid-19.
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BONUS PODCAST: Economics with Subtitles - How Condoms Can Cost a Week’s Wages
Inflation can change your sex life – and pretty much everything else.
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BONUS PODCAST: Economics with Subtitles - Coffins Full of Car Keys
Why we have interest rates, how we misunderstand them - and a curious coffin connection.
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BONUS PODCAST: Economics with Subtitles - Bracelets for Bullets
Why an Essex mum wanted her jewellery melted down and what it says about government debt
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BONUS PODCAST: Economics with Subtitles - How Buying Cocaine Helps the Government
The surprising story of GDP and whether it's time to change how we measure our economy
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Bonus Episode: Understand the Economy
Tim Harford brings you the first episode of his new podcast and explains inflation
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Bonus episode: the first ever More or Less
A chat with More or Less's founding producer and presenter plus the first episode in full
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Bonus episode: Daniel Kahneman on Thinking, Fast and Slow
In an episode of More or Less from 2012, Daniel Kahneman explains his big ideas.
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Bolton vaccines, Yorkshire versus Scotland and the average gamer
Were tens of thousands of people getting their jab in Bolton every single day?
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Bolivia: Can statistics help detect electoral fraud?
We look at the numbers and statistics from Bolivia’s disputed presidential election.
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Birds, Mozart, austerity, Thatcher
Birds + windows =? The ´óÏó´«Ã½ Quiz show The Unbelievable Truth reckons that more than 2...
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Billionaires versus the world
Does it matter that 62 people now own as much wealth as half of the world’s population?
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Biggest Movies
Jurassic World took $511m in its first weekend. Why have recent films done so well?
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Big numbers
More or Less examines this week's claims and counter-claims about VAT, exposes some -...
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Bernie Sanders and the cost of having a baby
Did Bernie Sanders get the cost of giving birth right?
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Ben Bernanke and the magic of banking
Tim Harford explains the work of this year’s Nobel Economics Prize winners
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Belarus’ contested election
Tim Harford looks at the numbers behind the widely questioned election result
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Bayes: the clergyman whose maths changed the world
How an obscure theory came into fashion.
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Back to school
More or Less looks at how maths is taught in schools today and it asks what the of the...
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Avengers - Should we reverse the snap?
Exploring the economic impact of losing half the world’s population
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Australian Animal Deaths, Carbon Emissions, Election Mystery
How many animals have died in Australia and how many Labour voters went Conservative?
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Austerity: a spreadsheet error?
Tim Harford tells the story of the student who uncovered a mistake in a famous paper...
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Austerity, border queues and bank holidays (R4)
Are we witnessing a grand economic experiment playing out between Britain and the How...
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Austerity Deaths, C-Sections and being struck by lightning
Has Austerity caused 120 thousand deaths in the UK and does God hate men?
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Auction Theory - Paul Milgrom and Robert Wilson
This year’s Nobel memorial prize winners for economics and their work on auction theory.
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Asymptomatic Covid19 Cases
How many Covid19 cases are truly asymptomatic?
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Ash Die Back and Fergie Time
This is the first in the new series of the programme. Tim Harford has been busy some...
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Artificial (not so) Intelligence
Is the problem with AI its lack of intelligence?
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Are young people more single than ever before?
How to define and measure being single – and are dating apps to blame?