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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Spies, care homes, and ending sneak peeks
Fri 26 May 2017
Can security services follow everyone known to them?
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WS More or Less: Uganda鈥檚 refugees
Mon 22 May 2017
Has Uganda accepted more refugees, daily than some European countries in an entire year?
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Tax, speed dating and sea ice
Fri 19 May 2017
Exploring the Labour manifesto's tax plans for high earners.
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WS More or Less: Is my Baby a Giant?
Fri 12 May 2017
Tim Harford explains the numbers and statistics in the news and in life.
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Nurses' pay, Scottish seats, Penalty shootouts
Fri 12 May 2017
Are nurses paid more than the national average? We take a look.
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Is Crime Rising?
Fri 5 May 2017
It looks like homicides are on the rise - but better check the footnotes
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WS More or Less: The Maths of Dating
Mon 1 May 2017
How to use mathematics to find your partner. And, how reliable are pregnancy due dates?
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Fact-checking Boris Johnson
Fri 28 Apr 2017
Giant bombs, a war hero and the foreign secretary's stats.
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WS More or Less: The death rate of white Americans 鈥� What鈥檚 going on?
Fri 21 Apr 2017
Are middle-aged white Americans dying younger than other groups?
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Living standards and Kate Bush maths
Fri 21 Apr 2017
Are people's incomes falling? Plus singing Pi like Kate Bush
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Economics of Overbooking
Fri 14 Apr 2017
Why airlines bet that not everybody will turn up for a flight.
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WS More or Less: Could North Korea Wipe out 90% of Americans?
Mon 10 Apr 2017
Experts warn that North Korea could wipe out most Americans in one go.
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WS More or Less: Will one in four people develop a mental health problem?
Fri 31 Mar 2017
Is there evidence that one in four people will develop a mental health problem?
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WS More Or Less: Baby Boxes 鈥� are they really saving infant鈥檚 lives?
Fri 24 Mar 2017
They鈥檝e become a bit of a phenomenon but what鈥檚 the evidence that they work?
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More or Less: The concrete facts about Trump鈥檚 wall and China
Fri 17 Mar 2017
Did China use more concrete in three years than the US in the 20th Century?
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WS More or Less: The Attention Span of a Goldfish
Fri 10 Mar 2017
Are our attention spans now shorter than a goldfish's?
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WS More or Less: Why are Hollywood actresses paid less than men?
Fri 3 Mar 2017
Top Hollywood actresses have complained that they are paid less than their male co-stars
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WS More or Less: What happened last night in Sweden?
Fri 24 Feb 2017
What happened last night in Sweden?
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Hidden Figures: The Real Story
Fri 17 Feb 2017
.African American women's part in the space race of the '50s and '60s
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WS More or Less: Hans Rosling - the extraordinary life of a statistical guru
Sat 11 Feb 2017
A tribute to Hans Rosling, a master communicator with a passion for global development.
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WS More or Less: Is democracy failing in America?
Fri 3 Feb 2017
Does North Carolina really rank alongside North Korea if you measure electoral integrity
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WS More or Less: Counting Crowds
Fri 27 Jan 2017
How many went to celebrate 鈥� and how many to protest 鈥� the Trump inauguration?
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WS More or Less: Why January makes us want to scream
Fri 20 Jan 2017
Blue Monday and Oxfam's wealth of billionaires- the stories that come around every year
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WS More or Less: Christian Martyrs
Fri 13 Jan 2017
Were 90,000 Christians killed because of their faith in 2016?
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WS More or Less: Should we really be drinking eight glasses of water a day?
Fri 6 Jan 2017
How much water do we need and how much is too much?
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WS More or Less: Does Sweden Really Have a Six Hour Day?
Tue 3 Jan 2017
Can you reduce working hours without affecting productivity?
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The Haber-Bosch Process
Fri 23 Dec 2016
Saving lives with thin air - by taking nitrogen from the air to make fertiliser
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WS More or Less: Life, death and data
Fri 23 Dec 2016
Improving data to target help to the poorest people
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?
蘑菇短视频 Ideas discovers three easy ways to help make sense of statistics.
