More or Less: Behind the Stats Episodes Episode guide
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Are you related to Edward III - and Danny Dyer?
What are the odds of being related to a medieval king? and how many cows for a fiver?
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Are women in the UK the biggest binge drinkers in the world?
Checking out stats on boozing Brits and fishing fleets in the South China Sea
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Are women 32% more likely to die after operation by a male surgeon?
Surgery death risks, Test and Trace costs in the UK and Germany, and podcast plans
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Are women 14 times more likely to die in natural disasters?
We unpick the idea that women outnumber men by 14 to 1 as casualties of natural disasters
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Are wild mammals only 4% of the mammal population?
Are wild mammals only 4% of the mammal population?
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Are there more stars than grains of beach sand?
Stars vs Sand. We work out who wins the ultimate cosmic battle.
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Are there more possible games of chess than atoms in the universe?
We investigate how the vast possibilities in chess compare to the vastness of the universe
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Are there more black men in college or prison in the US?
Only last week Ivory Toldson heard the speaker say there are more black men in prison...
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Are there 40 million Nigerians on Twitter?
Recent reports have claimed that Nigeria has 40 million Twitter users – but is this true?
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Are there 15,000 transgender people serving in the US military?
President Trump says transgender individuals cannot serve, but how many do already?
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Are the media exaggerating how hot it is in the Mediterranean?
A look at how accurately media report on the weather – especially recent heatwaves.
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Are Natural Disasters on the Rise?
Has the number of natural disasters really quadrupled in the last forty years?
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Are more men dying from coronavirus?
Tim Harford and Ruth Alexander examine the statistics around the world.
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Are more adult nappies sold in Japan than baby ones?
We examine a claim related to the perception of Japan as an ageing society.
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Are married women flipping miserable?
Measuring happiness, university access in Scotland, plus will one in two get cancer?
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Are Man Utd a one-man team?
More or Less creates the Alternative Premier League, with lead scorer goals chalked to...
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Are just 100 companies responsible for 71% of global emissions and how stressed are South Africans?
Looking at numbers on green house gas emissions and stress
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Are half the words in English from French?
We ask whether almost half the words in the English language are of French origin.
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Are girls starting puberty earlier?
We look into a claim that the age of girls’ puberty is falling rapidly
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Are female patients more likely to die if the surgeon is male?
Should women be worried about having a male surgeon?
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Are falling marriage rates causing happiness to fall in the US?
Investigating the relationship between matrimony and melancholy.
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Are companies making more money from their customers?
We investigate claims mark-ups are larger than ever
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Are CEOs worth it? (R4)
Executive pay, chess and trouble on the Greek railway.
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Are African leaders more likely to die in office?
The Prime Minister of Ethiopia is the fourth African premier to die this year alone.
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Are 672 billion pounds of corn eaten in the US every year?
A lot of corn is eaten in the United States, but is it really 2.5kg per person per day?
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Ants and Algorithms
David Sumpter describes the algorithms ruling the world
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Antibody tests, early lockdown advice and European deaths
Are more people are dying of Covid-19 in the UK than all the EU countries put together?
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Angelina Jolie’s 87% cancer risk
As Angelina Jolie announces that an 87% cancer risk has prompted her to have a double...
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Angelina Jolie’s 87% cancer risk
As Angelina Jolie announces that an 87% cancer risk has prompted her to have a double...
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Ambulance response times, teacher pay and Irish pubs
How long are people really waiting when they call 999 for an ambulance?