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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
Leaflets, taxes, oil workers and classrooms
We look at bad graphs, oil rig extrapolations and pupil populations
Why medical error is not the third leading cause of death in the US
Investigating how many deaths are caused by mistakes by doctors and nurses
Debate, Reform, tax evasion and ants
Fact-checking the leaders' debate, tax evasion savings and the weight of ants
Data for India
Changing India in numbers: what type of country will the next administration lead?