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More or Less: Behind the Stats Episodes

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    WS More or Less: Do Nigerian lawmakers get $1.7m and do Yams cause twins?

    Finding out if Nigerian politicians really get paid more than the American President.

  2. WS More or Less: Do Assassinations Work?

    How likely are assassination attempts on heads of state to succeed?

  3. WS More or Less: DNA - Are You More Chimp or Neanderthal?

    What is the difference between 96% similarity or sharing 20% of our DNA?

  4. WS More or Less: Diet Coke Habit; 'Contained' Wildfires

    Could the US President鈥檚 Diet Coke habit affect his health? and 'contained' wildfires

  5. WS More or Less: Deforestation in Brazil

    Has it increased significantly since President Bolsonaro took office in January?

  6. WS More or Less: Dealing with the Numbers of Cancer

    How one woman used statistics to help cope with cancer.

  7. WS More or Less: Dam Lies and Statistics

    Are mega-dams really sustainable?

  8. WS More or Less: Counting Terror Deaths

    Has 2016 been a particularly bad year for terrorism in Europe?

  9. WS More or Less: Counting Crowds

    How many went to celebrate 鈥� and how many to protest 鈥� the Trump inauguration?

  10. WS More or Less: Could North Korea Wipe out 90% of Americans?

    Experts warn that North Korea could wipe out most Americans in one go.

  11. WS More or Less: Coronavirus - The Numbers

    An update on Covid-19 statistics, with Tim Harford.

  12. WS More or Less: Coronavirus

    Fact checking claims about the spread of Coronavirus

  13. WS More or Less: Christian Martyrs

    Were 90,000 Christians killed because of their faith in 2016?

  14. WS More or Less: Child Marriage, Dangerous Algorithms

    Is a girl under 15 married every seven seconds? And beware dangerous algorithms

  15. WS More or Less: Cape Town murders

    Are eight people a day murdered in Cape Town and is that number unusually high?

  16. WS More or Less: Bushfire mystery

    Have a billion animals died in Australia鈥檚 fires? And which ones are likely to survive?

  17. WS More or Less: Brexit Economics

    What will happen to trade and business in the UK after leaving the EU?

  18. WS More or Less: Big polluters - ships versus cars

    Do the largest ships emit as much pollution as all the cars in the world?

  19. WS More Or Less: Baby Boxes 鈥� are they really saving infant鈥檚 lives?

    They鈥檝e become a bit of a phenomenon but what鈥檚 the evidence that they work?

  20. WS More or Less: Avoiding Asteroids

    We鈥檙e getting better at spotting Earth-bound space rocks 鈥� but how safe are we?

  21. WS More or Less: Australia Calling

    Do one in seven businessmen throw out their underwear after wearing them once?

  22. WS More or Less: Are Wildfires Really Burning More Land?

    Are Wildfires in the United States and Southern Europe burning more land than before?

  23. WS More or Less: Are US millennials more politically engaged online?

    Did the 2016 US election galvanise young people to become more engaged in politics?

  24. WS More or Less: Are African football players more likely to die on the field?

    After the death of Cheick Tiote, are African footballers more prone to heart attacks?

  25. WS More or Less: Are 90% of War Fatalities Civilians?

    Xavier Zapata examines what the data tells us about the deadly impact of war on civilians

  26. WS More or Less: An urban maze

    Why some parts of town are hard to navigate.

  27. WS More or Less: Amazon forest fires

    Are they really 85 percent worse than last year?

  28. WS More or Less: Algorithms, Crime and Punishment

    When maths can get you locked up.

  29. WS More or Less: When鈥檚 a Kilogram Not a Kilogram?

    Updating the kilogram.

  30. WS More or Less: Vaccines - The importance of the herd and social media

    What proportion of a population needs to be vaccinated to stop a disease spreading?

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