More or Less: Behind the Stats
Tim Harford and the More or Less team try to make sense of the statistics which surround us. From BBC Radio 4
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Shopping, shipping and wind chill-ing
2024-01-24 • 28min
Are there more possible games of chess than atoms in the universe?
2024-01-20 • 8min
Life expectancy, inheritance tax and the NHS vs winter
2024-01-17 • 23min
Do we see 10,000 adverts per day?
2024-01-13 • 8min
Deaths, taxes and missing cats
2024-01-10 • 28min
How much money do the ‘Ndrangheta mafia make?
2024-01-06 • 8min
Numbers of the year 2023
2023-12-30 • 13min
Can chocolate be better than salad?
2023-12-23 • 8min
China’s missing numbers
2023-12-16 • 8min
Does endurance sport harm your heart?
2023-12-09 • 8min
Will there be a billion climate refugees?
2023-12-02 • 9min
A boy meets girl meets stats story
2023-11-25 • 8min
Are women in the UK the biggest binge drinkers in the world?
2023-11-18 • 8min
Can maths prove the existence of aliens?
2023-11-11 • 10min
Do Indian women own 11% of the world’s gold?
2023-11-04 • 8min
The Overlooked Mathematicians of History
2023-10-28 • 9min
What do windscreen splats tell us about insect decline?
2023-10-21 • 8min
Greedy jobs and the gender pay gap
2023-10-14 • 12min
Are half the words in English from French?
2023-10-07 • 9min
Vaccine claims, Alzheimer's treatment and Tim's Parkrun times
2023-10-04 • 28min
Is the UK really ahead in cutting carbon emissions?
2023-09-30 • 8min
NHS consultant pay, Net Zero claims and Scotland's ferry woes
2023-09-27 • 30min
Which city has the longest canals?
2023-09-23 • 9min
Social housing, NHS workforce and Liz Truss debt claims
2023-09-20 • 27min
How to approach the world through numbers
2023-09-16 • 9min
Skin cancer, London rents and your great great great granddaughter
2023-09-13 • 28min
Did 35,000 Americans die building the Panama Canal?
2023-09-11 • 14min
Covid deaths, North Sea gas and Chloe Kelly's World Cup penalty
2023-09-06 • 28min
What percentage of our brain do we actually use?
2023-09-02 • 8min
HS2 and electric cars, UK vs China emissions & massive maths errors
2023-08-30 • 28min
How safe is the release of Fukushima nuclear plant water?
2023-08-26 • 9min
How many butterflies are there in the world?
2023-08-19 • 8min
Why is it so hard to predict the outcome of competitions like the Premier League?
2023-08-12 • 9min
Are the media exaggerating how hot it is in the Mediterranean?
2023-08-05 • 8min
Data, extreme weather and climate change
2023-07-29 • 8min
Ukraine war: A new way of calculating Russian deaths
2023-07-22 • 9min
Are more adult nappies sold in Japan than baby ones?
2023-07-15 • 9min
Does it take 10,000 litres of water to make a pair of jeans?
2023-07-08 • 9min
Immigration: A More or Less Special Programme
2023-07-05 • 28min
Will there be just 6 grandchildren for every 100 South Koreans?
2023-07-01 • 9min
Halving inflation, Scottish tidal power and have 1 in 3 women had an abortion?
2023-06-28 • 31min
US National Debt: is $32 trillion a big number?
2023-06-24 • 8min
Mortgages, birth rates and does space contribute 18% to UK GDP?
2023-06-21 • 28min
Is breastfeeding the key to exam success?
2023-06-17 • 9min
Electric vehicles, 600 million bottles and does oral sex cause cancer?
2023-06-14 • 32min
Counting Hunger in India
2023-06-10 • 9min
Lib Dem ambulance claims, affordable rent and goat meat
2023-06-07 • 28min
A short history of data
2023-06-03 • 9min
Food prices, net migration and beef about beef
2023-05-31 • 30min
Are young people more single than ever before?
2023-05-28 • 8min