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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Immigrant crime rates in the US
Sat 10 Aug 2019
Do immigrants commit more crime than native-born Americans in the United States?
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Immigrant Crime Rate in the US
Fri 9 Aug 2019
Do immigrants commit more crime than native-born Americans in the United States?
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The spread of fact-checking in Africa
Sat 3 Aug 2019
With misinformation so easy to spread, how can it be stopped or challenged?
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The spread of fact-checking in Africa
Fri 2 Aug 2019
With misinformation so easy to spread, how can it be stopped or challenged?
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Pregnancy prohibitions – the evidence
Sat 27 Jul 2019
Taking a statistical look at what expectant mothers should avoid
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Pregnancy prohibitions – the evidence
Fri 26 Jul 2019
Taking a statistical look at what expectant mothers should avoid.
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Zimbabwe’s economy: Are sanctions to blame?
Fri 19 Jul 2019
We look at politicians’ claims that sanctions are to blame for Zimbabwe’s difficulties.
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Zimbabwe’s economy: Are sanctions to blame?
Sat 13 Jul 2019
We look at politicians’ claims that sanctions are to blame for Zimbabwe’s difficulties.
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Is nuclear power actually safer than you think?
Sat 6 Jul 2019
We compare how deadly different forms of power generation are.
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Two World Cups: Football and Cricket
Fri 5 Jul 2019
We look at numbers involved with the two World Cups going on right now.
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Questioning the Chernobyl disaster death count
Sat 29 Jun 2019
We fact check the recent TV drama Chernobyl
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Is nuclear power actually safer than you think?
Fri 28 Jun 2019
We compare how deadly different forms of power generation are.
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Are married women flipping miserable?
Sat 22 Jun 2019
Questioning the claim that unmarried women without children are the happiest
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Questioning the Chernobyl disaster death count
Fri 21 Jun 2019
We fact check the recent TV drama Chernobyl
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Dealing with the numbers of cancer
Sat 15 Jun 2019
How one woman used statistics to help cope with cancer
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WS More or Less: Dealing with the Numbers of Cancer
Fri 14 Jun 2019
How one woman used statistics to help cope with cancer.
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WS More or Less: The things we fail to see
Mon 10 Jun 2019
The hidden influences that a make a big difference to the way the world works.
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The things we fail to see
Sat 8 Jun 2019
The hidden influences that make a big difference to the way the world works
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Are married women flipping miserable?
Fri 7 Jun 2019
Measuring happiness, university access in Scotland, plus will one in two get cancer?
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WS More or Less: Volcanoes versus humans
Mon 3 Jun 2019
Does Mount Etna produce more carbon emissions than humans? We check the numbers.
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Volcanoes versus humans
Sat 1 Jun 2019
Does Mount Etna produce more carbon emissions than humans? We check the numbers.
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Hay Festival Special
Fri 31 May 2019
What does it mean to say that the UK is the fifth largest economy in the world?
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WS More or Less: Florence Nightingale – recognising the nurse statistician
Mon 27 May 2019
How collecting data about the dead led the famous nurse to promote better sanitation.
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Florence Nightingale – recognising the nurse statistician
Sat 25 May 2019
How collecting data about the dead led the famous nurse to promote better sanitation.
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Eurovision and fact-checking Naomi Wolf
Fri 24 May 2019
The stats behind making a successful song, plus misunderstanding Victorian court records.
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Making music out of Money
Mon 20 May 2019
A musical interpretation of a chart depicting the yield-curve of American bonds.
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Making music out of money
Sat 18 May 2019
A musical interpretation of a chart depicting the yield-curve of American bonds.
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Heart deaths, Organised crime and Gender data gaps
Fri 17 May 2019
Are more people dying from coronary disease? Plus how we need more economic data on women
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.
