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 成人快手 Radio 4
Episodes to download
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Debt, students, shark and chips
Wed 14 Feb 2024
What is the government鈥檚 rule on debt? Do 90% of chip shops sell shark and chips?
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The global gender split in young people鈥檚 politics
Sat 10 Feb 2024
Tim Harford investigates the growing political divergence between young men and women.
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Council tax weirdness: Hartlepool vs Westminster
Wed 7 Feb 2024
Council tax comparisons, migration calculations and the carbon footprint of home-grown veg
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A pocket-size history of the calculator
Sat 3 Feb 2024
Tim Harford explores the history of calculators from clockwork to the Kashio brothers
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Measles, Traitors and the cost of Brexit
Wed 31 Jan 2024
Is measles spreading? How much is Brexit costing? How good are they at traitor guessing?
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Is Oxfam right about the world鈥檚 richest and poorest people?
Sat 27 Jan 2024
We investigate how Oxfam use wealth stats to illustrate global inequality
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Shopping, shipping and wind chill-ing
Thu 25 Jan 2024
We investigate the cost of a weekly shop and explore the workings of wind chill
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Are there more possible games of chess than atoms in the universe?
Sat 20 Jan 2024
We investigate how the vast possibilities in chess compare to the vastness of the universe
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Life expectancy, inheritance tax and the NHS vs winter
Wed 17 Jan 2024
How long will we live? Who pays inheritance tax? How did the NHS perform this winter?
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Do we see 10,000 adverts per day?
Sat 13 Jan 2024
We investigate the claim that each of us sees thousands of adverts every single day
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Deaths, taxes and missing cats
Wed 10 Jan 2024
We investigate claims about gun crime, the UK tax burden, and the number of missing cats
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How much money do the 鈥楴drangheta mafia make?
Sat 6 Jan 2024
We investigate whether one criminal group could have a turnover of billions of dollars
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Numbers of the year 2023
Sat 30 Dec 2023
Hand-picked stats that tell you something interesting about the world
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Can chocolate be better than salad?
Sat 23 Dec 2023
We investigate a nutritional conundrum 鈥� can chocolate ever be better for you than salad?
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China鈥檚 missing numbers
Sat 16 Dec 2023
How the Chinese state make inconvenient statistics disappear
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Does endurance sport harm your heart?
Sat 9 Dec 2023
We investigate the connection between high levels of exercise and arrhythmia
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Will there be a billion climate refugees?
Sat 2 Dec 2023
We investigate if floods, droughts and storms will cause mass international migration
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A boy meets girl meets stats story
Sat 25 Nov 2023
A data scientist takes on rom com films to see how women in STEM are represented.
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Are women in the UK the biggest binge drinkers in the world?
Sat 18 Nov 2023
Checking out stats on boozing Brits and fishing fleets in the South China Sea
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Can maths prove the existence of aliens?
Sat 11 Nov 2023
We look a famous equation which tries to explain whether life exists in outer space
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Do Indian women own 11% of the world鈥檚 gold?
Sat 4 Nov 2023
The cultural importance of gold is well known 鈥� but how much do Indians actually own?
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The Overlooked Mathematicians of History
Sat 28 Oct 2023
Exploring the global history of mathematics
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What do windscreen splats tell us about insect decline?
Sat 21 Oct 2023
We ask whether the 鈥榳indscreen phenomenon鈥� suggests falling numbers of insects
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Greedy jobs and the gender pay gap
Sat 14 Oct 2023
Tim Harford discusses the work of Nobel Economics prize winner Claudia Goldin
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Are half the words in English from French?
Sat 7 Oct 2023
We ask whether almost half the words in the English language are of French origin.
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Vaccine claims, Alzheimer's treatment and Tim's Parkrun times
Wed 4 Oct 2023
We debunk claims about excess deaths and the covid vaccine made by YouTuber John Campbell
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Is the UK really ahead in cutting carbon emissions?
Sat 30 Sep 2023
As the UK changes course in its path to net zero, how does it compare with other nations?
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NHS consultant pay, Net Zero claims and Scotland's ferry woes
Wed 27 Sep 2023
Are consultants in England really paid an average of 拢120,000 a year?
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Which city has the longest canals?
Sat 23 Sep 2023
We dive into the world of waterways after a listener asked who has the longest canals.
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Social housing, NHS workforce and Liz Truss debt claims
Wed 20 Sep 2023
Have the Tories really built a record number of social rent homes since 2010?
