More or Less Episodes Episode guide

Artificial (not so) Intelligence

Is the problem with AI its lack of intelligence?
Are young people more single than ever before?

How to define and measure being single – and are dating apps to blame?
Are you related to Edward III - and Danny Dyer?

What are the odds of being related to a medieval king? and how many cows for a fiver?
Are women in the UK the biggest binge drinkers in the world?

Checking out stats on boozing Brits and fishing fleets in the South China Sea
Are women 32% more likely to die after operation by a male surgeon?

Surgery death risks, Test and Trace costs in the UK and Germany, and podcast plans
Are women 14 times more likely to die in natural disasters?

We unpick the idea that women outnumber men by 14 to 1 as casualties of natural disasters
Are wild mammals only 4% of the mammal population?

Are wild mammals only 4% of the mammal population?
Are there more stars than grains of beach sand?

Stars vs Sand. We work out who wins the ultimate cosmic battle.
Are there more possible games of chess than atoms in the universe?

We investigate how the vast possibilities in chess compare to the vastness of the universe
Are there more black men in college or prison in the US?

Only last week Ivory Toldson heard the speaker say there are more black men in prison...
Are there 40 million Nigerians on Twitter?

Recent reports have claimed that Nigeria has 40 million Twitter users – but is this true?
Are there 15,000 transgender people serving in the US military?

President Trump says transgender individuals cannot serve, but how many do already?
Are the media exaggerating how hot it is in the Mediterranean?

A look at how accurately media report on the weather – especially recent heatwaves.
Are self-driving cars safer than cars with drivers?

We look at claims that fully autonomous cars are 5 or ten times safer
Are refugees more likely to commit crime?

Asylum seekers, nuclear power plants and fish, Sir David Attenborough and blue tit chicks
Are quantum computers already super-powerful?

We investigate what a big claim about the speed of a quantum chip really means
Are one in six children living through war?

A Unicef event said one in six children are living though war. What does that really mean?
Are older drivers more dangerous?

Plus, winter fuel deaths, prison sentence maths and leaves on railway tracks.
Are older drivers more dangerous?

Plus, winter fuel deaths, prison sentence maths and leaves on railway tracks.
Are Natural Disasters on the Rise?

Has the number of natural disasters really quadrupled in the last forty years?
Are more men dying from coronavirus?

Tim Harford and Ruth Alexander examine the statistics around the world.
Are more adult nappies sold in Japan than baby ones?

We examine a claim related to the perception of Japan as an ageing society.
Are millions of people getting Motability cars for anxiety and ADHD?

Farm tax, ADHD benefits, Movember claim and Tim’s marathon
Are married women flipping miserable?

Measuring happiness, university access in Scotland, plus will one in two get cancer?
Are Man Utd a one-man team?

More or Less creates the Alternative Premier League, with lead scorer goals chalked to...
Are just 100 companies responsible for 71% of global emissions and how stressed are South Africans?

Looking at numbers on green house gas emissions and stress
Are half the words in English from French?

We ask whether almost half the words in the English language are of French origin.
Are girls starting puberty earlier?

We look into a claim that the age of girls’ puberty is falling rapidly
Are female patients more likely to die if the surgeon is male?

Should women be worried about having a male surgeon?
Are falling marriage rates causing happiness to fall in the US?

Investigating the relationship between matrimony and melancholy.