More or Less Podcast
Tim Harford explains - and sometimes debunks - the numbers and statistics used in political debate, the news and everyday life.
Episodes to download
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Deciding when to suspend a vaccine
Sat 20 Mar 2021
Weighing up the risk of unproven side effects with stopping Covid-19
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Deciding when to suspend a vaccine
Sat 20 Mar 2021
Weighing up the risk of unproven side effects with stopping Covid 19.
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The truth about obesity and Covid-19
Sat 13 Mar 2021
Are countries with higher obesity rates suffering from more deaths?
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The truth about obesity and Covid 19
Sat 13 Mar 2021
Are countries with higher obesity rates suffering from more deaths?
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Why are US Covid cases falling?
Sat 27 Feb 2021
From herd immunity to the weather, Tim Harford explores the theories
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Why are US Covid cases falling?
Sat 27 Feb 2021
From herd immunity to the weather, Tim Harford explores the theories.
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Covid 19 death count: Which countries are faring worst?
Sat 20 Feb 2021
Tim Harford finds out if we can trust international comparisons with the available data.
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Covid 19 death count: which countries are faring worst?
Sat 20 Feb 2021
Tim Harford finds out if we can trust international comparisons with the available data.
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Comparing death counts, Lock Down drinking and Long Covid
Wed 17 Feb 2021
Is the UK’s Covid 19 death count among the worst in the world? Plus are we drinking more?
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How much Covid in the world?
Sat 13 Feb 2021
Counting all the virus particles in every human on the planet.
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How much Covid in the World?
Sat 13 Feb 2021
Counting all the virus particles in every human on the planet.
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Brexit exports, cladding and are 1 in 5 disabled?
Wed 10 Feb 2021
Are exports to the EU down since Brexit? Plus removing flammable building cladding.
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Glasgow vs Rwanda
Sat 6 Feb 2021
Could life expectancy in some parts of Glasgow be worse than in Rwanda?
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Glasgow vs Rwanda
Sat 6 Feb 2021
Could life expectancy in some parts of Glasgow be worse than in Rwanda?
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Deaths at Home, Supermarket Infections and the Cobra Effect
Wed 27 Jan 2021
Where are people catching Covid-19?
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Deaths at Home, Supermarket Infections and the Cobra Effect
Wed 27 Jan 2021
Where are people catching Covid-19?
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Deaths at home, supermarket infections and the Cobra effect
Wed 27 Jan 2021
Where are people catching Covid-19?
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Counting Covid’s impact on GDP
Sat 23 Jan 2021
Which countries have done worse, and what can GDP tell us?
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Counting Covid’s impact on GDP
Sat 23 Jan 2021
Does GDP tell us whose economies have suffered most during Covid?
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Will the vaccine bring back normal life? GDP and Fishing
Wed 20 Jan 2021
If we vaccinate the top four priority groups by February, how much will things change?
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Will the vaccine bring back normal life? GDP and Fishing
Wed 20 Jan 2021
If we vaccinate the top four priority groups by February, how much will things change?
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How effective is one Covid vaccine dose?
Sat 16 Jan 2021
Calculating the protection given by the Pfizer/BioNtech vaccine
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How effective is one dose of the vaccine?
Thu 14 Jan 2021
Is the first dose of the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine 52% or 90% effective?
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How effective is one dose of the vaccine?
Wed 13 Jan 2021
Is the first dose of the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine 52% or 90% effective?
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.
