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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QAnon: Child runaways and trafficking numbers debunked
Sat 12 Dec 2020
Tackling statistics spread by conspiracy theorists.
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QAnon: Child runaways and trafficking numbers debunked
Fri 11 Dec 2020
Tackling statistics spread by conspiracy theorists.
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Vaccines: How safe and who gets it?
Sat 5 Dec 2020
Is it too soon to approve for use? Plus choosing who goes first.
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Vaccines: how safe and who gets it?
Sat 5 Dec 2020
Is it too soon to approve a vaccine for use? Plus choosing who goes first.
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Tracking Covid 19
Sat 28 Nov 2020
Which countries are doing well at keeping track of the virus? And which are not?
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Inviting Covid for Dinner
Sat 21 Nov 2020
If you go to a gathering of 25 people, what are the chances one of you has coronavirus?
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Inviting Covid for Dinner
Sat 21 Nov 2020
If you go to a gathering of 25 people, what are the chances one of you has coronavirus?
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US election: facts or fiction
Sat 24 Oct 2020
Tim Harford hears about the sheer volume of false claims made in the campaign.
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US election: facts or fiction
Sat 24 Oct 2020
Tim Harford hears about the sheer volume of false claims made in the campaign.
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Auction Theory - Paul Milgrom and Robert Wilson
Sat 17 Oct 2020
This year’s Nobel memorial prize winners for economics and their work on auction theory.
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Auction Theory - Paul Milgrom and Robert Wilson
Sat 17 Oct 2020
This year’s Nobel memorial prize winners for economics and their work on auction theory.
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Spreadsheet snafu, ‘Long Covid’ quantified, and the birth of probability
Wed 7 Oct 2020
Missing coronavirus case data, long-term symptoms, and a big mathematical moment.
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Trump’s misleading 'fact' about the Covid-19 death count in the US
Sat 3 Oct 2020
We examine a suspect stat from the US and an eye-popping claim about volumising mascara.
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.
