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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Pizza and nuclear war
Sun 20 Mar 2022
How good negotiation can help us split pizzas fairly and also avoid nuclear war.
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Pizza and Nuclear War
Sun 20 Mar 2022
How good negotiation can help us split pizzas fairly and also avoid Nuclear War
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Does the UK take in more refugees than other European countries?
Sun 13 Mar 2022
Fact checking Boris Johnson’s claim
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Does the UK take in more refugees than other European countries?
Sun 13 Mar 2022
Fact checking Boris Johnson’s claim.
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Troop and Casualty Numbers in Ukraine
Wed 2 Mar 2022
How reliable are the figures coming out of the conflict in Ukraine?
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Vaccinating children, lockdowns, and ebikes
Wed 23 Feb 2022
Jabs for five to 11-year-olds, lockdown effectiveness, and being green on two wheels
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Hospitalisation rates for children with Covid
Sun 20 Feb 2022
Do 1 in 100 children who catch Covid end up hospitalised?
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Questioning claims about Covid and children
Wed 16 Feb 2022
How likely are children to end up in hospital because of Covid? And how many have died?
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The prime minister in statistical bother
Wed 9 Feb 2022
Boris Johnson has been ticked off for misleading Parliament on jobs and on crime.
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Does the UK have the fastest growing economy in the G7?
Wed 2 Feb 2022
How fast is our economy growing? And what is happening with Omicron reinfections?
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Should you follow the 5 second rule? And does inflation hit the poorest harder?
Wed 26 Jan 2022
Does inflation hit poor households harder and how many people have died of Covid?
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Are female patients more likely to die if the surgeon is male?
Sun 23 Jan 2022
Should women be worried about having a male surgeon?
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Are female patients more likely to die if the surgeon is male?
Sun 23 Jan 2022
Should women be worried about having a male surgeon?
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Are women 32% more likely to die after operation by a male surgeon?
Wed 19 Jan 2022
Surgery death risks, Test and Trace costs in the UK and Germany, and podcast plans
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QAnon: Did 365,348 children go missing in the US in 2020?
Sun 16 Jan 2022
Fact checking a QAnon claim.
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QAnon: Did 365,348 children go missing in the US in 2020?
Sun 16 Jan 2022
Fact checking a QAnon claim
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Omicron, pandemic birth rates and boosters
Wed 12 Jan 2022
An Omicron update, pandemic birth rates and the booster drive.
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How much plastic is in the ocean and can Mr Beast make a difference?
Sun 9 Jan 2022
Can two social media stars remove $30million worth of plastic from the ocean?
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How much plastic is in the Ocean and can Mr Beast make a difference?
Sun 9 Jan 2022
Looking at Mark Rober and Mr Beast’s plastics pledge.
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.
