More or Less: Behind the Stats Episodes Episode guide
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WS MoreOrLess: Kidney Donation
The chance of a successful kidney match between two unrelated people has increased in...
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WS MoreOrLess: John Nash
The life and achievements of the mathematician John Nash
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WS MoreOrLess: Is this the greatest world cup ever?
As we reach the end of the group stage are we really witnessing the greatest world cup...
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WS MoreOrLess: Is strenuous jogging bad for you?
Tim Harford asks whether claims that keen runners might be damaging their health are...
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WS MoreOrLess: Indian Farmer Suicides
This week Ruth Alexander is looking at farmer suicides in India. But is it any more in...
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WS MoreOrLess: Immigration
How much do migrants cost or benefit a nation? Plus, planning a wedding - when you and...
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WS MoreOrLess: How safe is flying?
The Germanwings A320 tragedy, in which 150 people died, is the latest in a series of...
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WS MoreOrLess: How Reliable is Psychology Science?
How reliable are psychological science studies? Tim Harford finds out.
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WS MoreOrLess: How Many Stormtroopers are there?
Are Star Wars鈥� Stormtroopers the biggest secret army on Earth?
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WS MoreOrLess: How Many is Too Many Bananas?
Should population density affect refugee movements? How many bananas are too many?
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WS MoreOrLess: How do we calculate the distance to the sun?
Two young listeners emailed the programme to ask how we calculate the distance to the sun.
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WS MoreOrLess: Horoscope Health
Can your horoscope predict which diseases you鈥檒l develop?
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WS MoreOrLess: Heads Or Tails?
Freakonomics guru Steven Levitt joins us to talk about an unusual experiment 鈥� to to...
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WS MoreOrLess: Has Islamic State been Losing Territory?
Has so-called Islamic State been losing territory? Ruth Alexander investigates.
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WS MoreOrLess: Gravitational Waves
In search of a previously unobserved part of Einstein鈥檚 theory.
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WS MoreOrLess: Golden Ticket
In Roald Dahl鈥檚 novel "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory", Charlie Bucket wins a to...
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WS MoreOrLess: Global Wealth
Who is in the world's wealthiest elite, and where do they live? Which are the world's...
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WS MoreOrLess: Global Footprint
Do we need one and a half planets worth of resources? Tim Harford investigates.
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WS MoreOrLess: Genocide in South Africa?
It is claimed white South Africans are being systematically killed because of the of...
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WS MoreOrLess: Foreign Aid: More Harm Than Good?
Nobel Prize winning economist professor Angus Deaton on a lifetime measuring inequality.
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WS MoreOrLess: Football鈥檚 Red Card Clich茅
Is it harder to play football against ten men? Tim Harford finds out.
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WS MoreOrLess: Fertility - when is too late?
Women in their late thirties shouldn鈥檛 be as anxious about their prospects of having...
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WS MoreOrLess: Fear of Flying
After three tragic airline incidents in eight days, is flying becoming more dangerous?...
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WS MoreOrLess: Ebola
What do we know about how deadly the Ebola virus is, and how likely is it that there...
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WS MoreOrLess: Does politics make us get our sums wrong?
To what degree do our personal opinions cloud our judgement? Yale University have to...
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WS MoreOrLess: Do We Use Only 10% of Our Brains?
Is it true that humans use just 10% of their brains? It芒鈧劉s the premise of the new...
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WS MoreOrLess: Did global poverty halve overnight?
Did the number of people around the world living in extreme poverty fall by half a few...
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WS MoreOrLess: Deaths in Gaza
As the Gaza conflict continues, the fact that there are estimated to be nearly three...
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WS MoreOrLess: Death Penalty
Death Row exoneration statistics. Recently it鈥檚 been claimed that for every nine in...
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WS MoreOrLess: Creativity and Mental Illness
Are creative people more likely to be mentally ill, and has Cuba wiped out child hunger?
