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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Ed Sheeran and the mathematics of musical coincidences
Sat 25 Jun 2022
Ed Sheeran thinks that musical coincidences will always happen鈥� but do the numbers agree?
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Rail strikes, tyre pollution and sex statistics
Wed 22 Jun 2022
Do rail workers really earn 拢13,000 a year more than nurses?
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Maternity litigation, stars, bees and windowless planes
Wed 15 Jun 2022
Are damages for maternity mistakes now more than wages for maternity nurses and doctors?
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Hannah Fry: Understanding the numbers of cancer
Sat 11 Jun 2022
The maths professor on the choices she and others have faced after a cancer diagnosis
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Employment puzzle, pyramids and triplets
Wed 8 Jun 2022
The UK has a low unemployment rate but lots of people not working 鈥� how come?
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Are girls starting puberty earlier?
Sat 4 Jun 2022
We look into a claim that the age of girls鈥� puberty is falling rapidly
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Jubilee costs, fuel poverty and imperial measures
Wed 1 Jun 2022
We debunk a claim the government is spending 拢38,000 per household on the Jubilee
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Noisy Decisions
Sat 28 May 2022
The world鈥檚 most famous psychologist on how 'noise' impacts our decision making
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Are young people more single than ever before?
Fri 27 May 2022
How to define and measure being single 鈥� and are dating apps to blame?
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Germany鈥檚 excess deaths, Eurovision and teacher shortages
Wed 25 May 2022
Did Germany really fare worse than the UK in the pandemic?
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Are just 100 companies responsible for 71% of global emissions and how stressed are South Africans?
Sat 21 May 2022
Looking at numbers on green house gas emissions and stress
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Did the WHO get some of its excess death estimates wrong?
Sat 14 May 2022
We look at the World Health Organisation鈥檚 latest estimates of the pandemic鈥檚 death toll
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Have the oceans become 30% more acidic?
Sat 7 May 2022
Tim Harford asks how we measure the health of our oceans
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Sweden鈥檚 polarising pandemic response
Sat 30 Apr 2022
Has Sweden鈥檚 pandemic response been a triumph or a disaster鈥r something in-between?
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Understanding India through Data
Sat 23 Apr 2022
What can data tell us about a country of 1.4 billion people?
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Subitising and simplifying: how to better explain numbers
Fri 15 Apr 2022
How can we clearly explain complex numbers to the public without losing their meaning?
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Did tea-drinking cut deaths in the Industrial Revolution?
Sat 9 Apr 2022
How tea became an accidental lifesaver in 18th Century England.
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Will the war in Ukraine cause a global wheat shortage?
Sat 2 Apr 2022
How much of the worlds wheat comes from Ukraine and Russia
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Pizza and Nuclear War
Sun 20 Mar 2022
How good negotiation can help us split pizzas fairly and also avoid Nuclear War
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Does the UK take in more refugees than other European countries?
Sun 13 Mar 2022
Fact checking Boris Johnson鈥檚 claim.
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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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