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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Superforecasting the Coronavirus
Sat 18 Apr 2020
Can professional predictors help us understand the course of the coronavirus pandemic?
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Should you wear a face mask?
Sat 11 Apr 2020
Tim Harford looks at the debate over making your own Covid-19 protection.
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Should you wear a face mask?
Sat 11 Apr 2020
Tim Harford looks at the debate over making your own Covid-19 protection.
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Coronavirus deaths, face masks and a potential baby boom
Wed 8 Apr 2020
Is the coronavirus death count misleading because of delays in reporting?
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Are more men dying from coronavirus?
Sat 4 Apr 2020
Tim Harford and Ruth Alexander examine the statistics around the world.
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Are more men dying from coronavirus?
Sat 4 Apr 2020
Tim Harford and Ruth Alexander examine the statistics around the world.
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Supermarket stockpiling, A-level results and Covid-19 gender disparity
Tue 31 Mar 2020
Is the coronavirus pandemic having a different impact on men and women?
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Covid-19: The risks
Sat 28 Mar 2020
Professor Sir David Spiegelhalter puts the risks of Covid-19 into perspective
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The Risk
Sat 28 Mar 2020
Professor Sir David Spiegelhalter puts the risks of Covid-19 into perspective.
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Coronavirus Special
Wed 25 Mar 2020
The risks of Covid-19 for different age groups and what restrictions mean for the economy
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Mitigation or suppression: What’s best to tackle coronavirus?
Sat 21 Mar 2020
How statistical modelling can help us respond to the Coronavirus pandemic
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Mitigation or Suppression: What’s best to tackle Coronavirus?
Sat 21 Mar 2020
How statistical modelling can help us respond to the Coronavirus pandemic
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The mystery of Iran’s coronavirus numbers
Sat 14 Mar 2020
Does Iran have a lot more covid-19 cases that its figures suggest?
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The mystery of Iran’s coronavirus numbers
Sat 14 Mar 2020
Does Iran have a lot more covid-19 cases that its figures suggest?
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How much heat do you lose from your head?
Mon 9 Mar 2020
Is it true that 40% of your body's heat loss comes from your head?
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How much heat do you lose from your head?
Sat 7 Mar 2020
Is it true that 40% of your body's heat loss comes from your head?
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Netflix v the environment
Sat 29 Feb 2020
Does watching 30 minutes of Netflix have the same carbon footprint as driving four miles?
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Netflix vs the environment
Sat 29 Feb 2020
Does watching 30 minutes of Netflix have the same carbon footprint as driving four miles?
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More or Less: Superforecasting, wood burning stoves and the real story of Hidden Figures
Fri 28 Feb 2020
Dipping into the archive for stories on the art of prediction and wood burner pollution
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WS More or Less: Coronavirus - The Numbers
Sat 15 Feb 2020
An update on Covid-19 statistics, with Tim Harford.
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Coronavirus, jam, AI and tomatoes
Fri 14 Feb 2020
Covid-19 stats, spreading jam far and wide, cooking with AI, and James Wong on vegetables
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How fast are alligators and hippos?
Sat 8 Feb 2020
Can alligators run at 50kmph? Join us in clocking alligators’ gaits
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WS More or Less: How fast are Alligators and Hippos?
Sat 8 Feb 2020
Can alligators run at 50kmph? Join us in clocking alligators’ gaits.
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Tracking terror suspects
Fri 7 Feb 2020
Costing counter-terrorism, interrogating tomatoes, the UK's reading age, politics and GDP
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Coronavirus, emotions and guns.
Fri 31 Jan 2020
Fact checking claims about coronavirus and whether more guns equal fewer homicides.
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.
