成人快手

Novelists in Numbers

Counting the favourite words of well-known authors

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Do Nigerian Lawmakers Make More than President Trump?

Fact checking the claim that Nigerian politicians earn more than 1.7million dollars

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Why Albums are Getting Longer

More or less finds out the numbers that are changing modern music.

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How Expensive is Italy鈥檚 World Cup Failure?

How much will Italy's surprise failure to make it to the world cup cost FIFA?

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How Rich was Jane Austen鈥檚 Mr Darcy?

What the Pride and Prejudice character would have earned in today鈥檚 money

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Just how lucky are regular lottery winners?

How statistics were used to show how unlikely it is to win hundreds of times by chance.

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Does Eating Chocolate Make Your Brain Younger?

Are research findings misrepresented by funders, PR machines and the media?

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Diet Coke Habit

What effect could the US President鈥檚 Diet Coke habit have on his health?

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Will Bitcoin use more electricity than the United States?

Measuring the energy used to keep the crypotcurrency secure

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Statistics of the Year 2017

Phones, lawn mowers and how Kim Kardashian helped the public understanding of risk

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Just How Rare is a Hole-in-One?

Why it is not as simple to work out as you think

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How Louis Bachelier Scooped Economists by Half a Century

A forgotten French mathematician鈥檚 unusual approach to the stock market.

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Real Lives Behind the Numbers

How individuals manage their money - the personal stories behind economic data.

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Is the US Census Under Threat?

The survey question that could affect the accuracy of its results.

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Is China On Track to End Poverty by 2020?

We investigate whether the Chinese government can really achieve its extraordinary pledge

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Russia: Has drinking fallen by 80% in five years?

Alcohol consumption has fallen sharply according to Russia鈥檚 health ministry.

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Debunking guide 鈥� on a postcard

How to question dubious statistics in just a few short steps

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The Winter Olympics

Which is the most successful country? Plus the chances of a dead heat.

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Women, the Oscars and the Bechdel Test

Ninety years鈥� worth of Best Picture winning films under the spotlight.

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Did Sir Roger Bannister make the 鈥榠mpossible鈥� possible?

A mile in under four minutes. Did positive thinking propel dozens to do the same?

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Factchecking Trump on Trade

The US President regularly talks about America's trade deficit - do his figures stack up?

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Were 鈥楨xtra鈥� Votes Counted in Russia鈥檚 Presidential Election?

We look at voting data to investigate allegations of election fraud in Russia

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How Deadly Was 1920s Melbourne?

How accurate is the murder rate in the crime series Miss Fisher鈥檚 Murder Mysteries?

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Why London鈥檚 Murder Rate is Being Compared to New York鈥檚

Finding out if London is now more deadly than New York.

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Are We Breathing Unsafe Air?

The W.H.O. say 95% of people in cities breathe unsafe air, but what does 'unsafe' mean?

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How Should We Think About Spending?

Tim Harford talks to economist Dan Ariely about the psychology of money.

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Puerto Rico: Statistics v Politics

Why some fear the statistics authority is about to lose its independence

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Exposing the Biases We Have of the World

Statistician Hans Rosling鈥檚 family talk about the book they co-wrote about preconceptions

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Tulipmania Mythology

What is the truth behind the 17th Century Dutch craze for tulips?

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James Comey: Basketball Superstar?

James Comey is very tall - but what are the chances he could have been a pro baller?

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