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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WS More or Less: Yellow cards for Christmas
Fri 16 Dec 2016
Are footballers trying to get suspended for Christmas?
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Have more famous people died this year?
Fri 16 Dec 2016
Notable deaths, Rule Britannia and creating your own Christmas speech
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WS More or Less: How risky is the contraceptive pill?
Mon 12 Dec 2016
We look at the numbers behind the scary headlines about birth control.
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How wrong were the Brexit forecasts?
Fri 9 Dec 2016
The economic doom that never was; childhood cancer figures and Ed Balls
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WS More or Less: How not to test public opinion
Fri 2 Dec 2016
The survey by the Indian PM that broke all the polling rules and started a mass protest
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Are you related to Edward III - and Danny Dyer?
Fri 2 Dec 2016
What are the odds of being related to a medieval king? and how many cows for a fiver?
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WS More or Less: Good news on renewables?
Mon 28 Nov 2016
Renewable capacity has surpassed that of coal鈥搃s this good news? Plus an asteroid update.
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Pensioners aren't poor anymore
Fri 25 Nov 2016
High-rolling pensioners? predicting Norovirus, air pollution deaths and lost or found?
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WS More or Less: Avoiding Asteroids
Mon 21 Nov 2016
We鈥檙e getting better at spotting Earth-bound space rocks 鈥� but how safe are we?
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Is dementia the number one killer?
Fri 18 Nov 2016
Is dementia on the rise? Plus immigration, incomplete contacts and chocolate muffins
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WS More or Less: Liberia鈥檚 Rape Statistic Debunked
Mon 14 Nov 2016
Is the claim that three out of four women were raped during Liberia's civil war true?
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US election, stray cats and puzzles
Fri 11 Nov 2016
Who voted in the US elections? Plus are there nine million stray cats in the UK?
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WS More or Less: Ice Cream versus aid
Mon 7 Nov 2016
Does the world really spend three times as much on ice cream than on humanitarian aid?
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WS More or Less: Child Marriage, Dangerous Algorithms
Fri 28 Oct 2016
Is a girl under 15 married every seven seconds? And beware dangerous algorithms
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WS More or Less: Escobar鈥檚 Cocaine Deaths
Mon 24 Oct 2016
How many people die for every kilo of cocaine?
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WS More or Less: The Sustainable Development Goals 鈥� are there just too many?
Fri 7 Oct 2016
Is there a better way of looking at the Sustainable Development Goals?
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WS More or Less: Who Won the US Presidential Debate?
Fri 30 Sep 2016
Polling on the Clinton-Trump TV showdown 鈥� and why not all polls are equal.
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WS More or Less: Trump鈥檚 crime claims
Fri 23 Sep 2016
Are some US inner cities more dangerous than Afghanistan?
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WS More or Less: Wedding gift economics
Fri 16 Sep 2016
How much should spend when a couple get married?
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WS More or Less: Drug deaths in the Philippines
Fri 9 Sep 2016
How many people have died during President Duterte鈥檚 drug crackdown?
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WS More or Less: Menstrual Syncing
Mon 5 Sep 2016
Do women鈥檚 periods start to synchronise if they spend time together?
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Death Penalty abolition
Tue 30 Aug 2016
The story behind the countries that have not executed anyone for 10 years
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WS More or Less: Counting Terror Deaths
Mon 22 Aug 2016
Has 2016 been a particularly bad year for terrorism in Europe?
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WS More or Less: Swimming World Records
Mon 15 Aug 2016
Why are swimming world records frequently being broken?
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.
