More or Less Podcast
Tim Harford explains - and sometimes debunks - the numbers and statistics used in political debate, the news and everyday life.
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Maternity litigation, stars, bees and windowless planes
Wed 15 Jun 2022
Are damages for maternity mistakes now more than wages for maternity nurses and doctors?
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Hannah Fry: Understanding the numbers of cancer
Sat 11 Jun 2022
The maths professor on the choices she and others have faced after a cancer diagnosis
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Hannah Fry: Understanding the numbers of cancer
Sat 11 Jun 2022
The maths professor on the choices she and others have faced after a cancer diagnosis
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Employment puzzle, pyramids and triplets
Wed 8 Jun 2022
The UK has a low unemployment rate but lots of people not working – how come?
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Are girls starting puberty earlier?
Sat 4 Jun 2022
We look into a claim that the age of girls’ puberty is falling rapidly
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Are girls starting puberty earlier?
Sat 4 Jun 2022
We look into a claim that the age of girls’ puberty is falling rapidly
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Jubilee costs, fuel poverty and imperial measures
Wed 1 Jun 2022
We debunk a claim the government is spending £38,000 per household on the Jubilee
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Noisy decisions
Sat 28 May 2022
Nobel prize winning psychologist Daniel Kahneman on how 'noise' impacts decision making
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Noisy Decisions
Sat 28 May 2022
The world’s most famous psychologist on how 'noise' impacts our decision making
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Are young people more single than ever before?
Fri 27 May 2022
How to define and measure being single – and are dating apps to blame?
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Germany’s excess deaths, Eurovision and teacher shortages
Wed 25 May 2022
Did Germany really fare worse than the UK in the pandemic?
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Are just 100 companies responsible for 71% of global emissions?
Sat 21 May 2022
Looking at numbers on green house gas emissions and stress.
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Are just 100 companies responsible for 71% of global emissions and how stressed are South Africans?
Sat 21 May 2022
Looking at numbers on green house gas emissions and stress
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Did the WHO get some of its excess death estimates wrong?
Sat 14 May 2022
We look at the World Health Organisation’s latest estimates of the pandemic’s death toll
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Did the WHO get some of its excess death estimates wrong?
Sat 14 May 2022
We look at the World Health Organisation’s latest estimates of the pandemic’s death toll
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Have the oceans become 30% more acidic?
Sat 7 May 2022
Tim Harford asks how we measure the health of our oceans
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Have the oceans become 30% more acidic?
Sat 7 May 2022
Tim Harford asks how we measure the health of our oceans
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Sweden’s polarising pandemic response
Sat 30 Apr 2022
Has Sweden’s pandemic response been a triumph or a disaster…or something in-between?
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Sweden’s polarising pandemic response
Sat 30 Apr 2022
Has Sweden’s pandemic response been a triumph or a disaster…or something in-between?
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Understanding India through data
Sat 23 Apr 2022
What can data tell us about a country of 1.4 billion people?
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Understanding India through Data
Sat 23 Apr 2022
What can data tell us about a country of 1.4 billion people?
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Subitising and simplifying: how to better explain numbers
Sat 16 Apr 2022
How can we clearly explain complex numbers to the public without losing their meaning?
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Subitising and simplifying: how to better explain numbers
Fri 15 Apr 2022
How can we clearly explain complex numbers to the public without losing their meaning?
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Did tea-drinking cut deaths in the Industrial Revolution?
Sat 9 Apr 2022
How tea became an accidental lifesaver in 18th Century England.
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Did tea-drinking cut deaths in the Industrial Revolution?
Sat 9 Apr 2022
How tea became an accidental lifesaver in 18th Century England.
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Will the war in Ukraine cause a global wheat shortage?
Sat 2 Apr 2022
How much of the worlds wheat comes from Ukraine and Russia
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Will the war in Ukraine cause a global wheat shortage?
Sat 2 Apr 2022
How much of the worlds wheat comes from Ukraine and Russia
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Why has Hong Kong’s Covid wave been so bad?
Sun 27 Mar 2022
What’s behind one of the worst Covid death rates ever?
Unlock the history and truth behind the data with The OU
Explore how numbers shape, and sometimes mislead us, with The Open University.
When can you trust statistics?
BBC Ideas discovers three easy ways to help make sense of statistics.
