More or Less: Behind the Stats Episodes Available now
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
Is increasing turbulence making flying more dangerous?
Exploring the link between bumpy flights and climate change
Federer’s 54%: Tennis stats explained
How Federer became the best in the world winning just over half the points he played
The magic of trigonometry
Tim Harford interviews Matt Parker on his latest book ‘Love Triangle’
Election endings, tennis and meeting men in finance
Exit polls, election claims, and a 54% chance of winning a point in tennis
How a tick box doubled the US maternal mortality rates.
We investigate changes to the way the US gathers their maternal mortality statistics
Election claims and erection claims
What did Liz Truss do to mortgage rates? Do erections use a litre of blood?
Do ‘pig butchering’ cyber scams make as much as half Cambodia’s GDP?
We investigate the money made by an international cybercrime operation
Worse mortgages, better readers, and potholes on the moon
We check some of the numbers that are flying about in the election campaign
Shakespeare’s maths
Author Rob Eastaway on the numbers in Shakespeare’s writing