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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NHS waiting lists, Voter ID and measuring divorce
2023-05-24 • 28min
Detecting Bad Science with Data
2023-05-20 • 10min
Do 94% of marriages in Portugal really end in divorce?
2023-05-13 • 10min
Why is life expectancy falling in the USA?
2023-05-06 • 10min
How much is the Coronation crown worth?
2023-04-29 • 10min
The Pentagon Leaks and Fox News
2023-04-22 • 9min
How accurate is baby's due date?
2023-04-15 • 10min
How to better understand and explain numbers
2023-04-08 • 10min
A groundbreaking new proof for Pythagoras’ Theorem?
2023-04-01 • 10min
Covid vaccines and false claims about miscarriage
2023-03-25 • 9min
Silicon Valley Bank: a very modern bank run
2023-03-18 • 9min
Do fungi kill three times as many people as malaria?
2023-03-11 • 8min
Does your jewellery contain stolen Brink’s-Mat gold?
2023-03-04 • 10min
UK vs European energy prices, falling excess deaths and is 5 grams of cocaine a lot?
2023-03-01 • 28min
Do 29,000 coffee pods really go to landfill every minute?
2023-02-25 • 10min
Reoffending rates, Welsh taxes and the menopause
2023-02-22 • 29min
Florence Nightingale and how she visualised data
2023-02-18 • 10min
Nurses' pay, ambulance times and forgotten female economists
2023-02-15 • 28min
Spreadsheet disasters
2023-02-11 • 10min
The IMF and the UK economy, NHS staff shortages and British vs English
2023-02-08 • 28min
Hannah Fry on using shopping data to detect ovarian cancer
2023-02-04 • 9min
Brexit and trade, pensioner millionaires and Hannah Fry on loyalty cards and cancer
2023-02-01 • 28min
Are wild mammals only 4% of the mammal population?
2023-01-28 • 10min
Coffee with the Chancellor, inflation measures, GP numbers and toilet paper
2023-01-25 • 28min
Does toilet paper cause 15% of global deforestation?
2023-01-21 • 8min
Ambulance response times, teacher pay and Irish pubs
2023-01-18 • 29min
How we shook the world of very large numbers
2023-01-14 • 8min
A&E delays and deaths, religious identity in N Ireland and naming the monster numbers
2023-01-11 • 28min
Can China's data on covid deaths be trusted?
2023-01-07 • 9min
Irish pubs - a global numbers game
2022-12-31 • 10min
Numbers of the Year 2022
2022-12-24 • 8min
Qatar World Cup: the pressure of penalties
2022-12-17 • 8min
Why are data so important in determining how we live?
2022-12-10 • 8min
The World Cup: how many migrant workers have died?
2022-12-03 • 10min
When do food shortages become a famine?
2022-11-26 • 8min
A $220 billion World Cup?
2022-11-19 • 8min
Bonus Episode: Understand the Economy
2022-11-14 • 14min
Improving the numbers in the news
2022-11-12 • 8min
Lula’s “zero deforestation” plan for the Amazon
2022-11-05 • 8min
Can China’s GDP data be trusted?
2022-10-29 • 8min
Do half of new books really sell fewer than twelve copies?
2022-10-22 • 8min
Ben Bernanke and the magic of banking
2022-10-15 • 10min
Catching Chess Cheats with Data
2022-10-08 • 8min
Teens and antidepressants, stamp duty savings and earthquake probabilities
2022-10-07 • 28min
NASA’s asteroid collision: how many asteroids are really out there?
2022-10-01 • 9min
Falling pound, the Queen’s funeral and is 0.5 on the Richter scale a big number?
2022-09-28 • 29min
Ukraine’s progress in numbers
2022-09-24 • 10min
Ukraine offensive, weak pound & how much do women really exercise
2022-09-22 • 28min
How bad is fashion for the environment?
2022-09-17 • 8min
Energy crisis plan, imperial measures survey, gardens v national parks
2022-09-14 • 28min