More or Less Podcast
Tim Harford explains - and sometimes debunks - the numbers and statistics used in political debate, the news and everyday life.
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WS More or Less: The Great EU Cabbage Myth
Tue 5 Apr 2016
Does the European Union dedicate 26,911 words to cabbage regulation?
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The Great EU Cabbage Myth
Mon 4 Apr 2016
Does the European Union dedicate 26,911 words to cabbage regulation?
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WSMoreOrLess: Safe drinking
Thu 24 Mar 2016
UK Alcohol guidelines recommend drinking less 鈥� but do the numbers support them?
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WSMoreOrLess: Mobiles or lightbulbs
Fri 18 Mar 2016
Are there more mobile phones than lightbulbs in Uganda? And thyroid cancer in Fukushima.
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WSMoreOrLess: Can we trust food surveys?
Fri 11 Mar 2016
The pitfalls of nutrition science - how do really know what people are eating?
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WSMoreOrLess: Fact checking The Big Short
Fri 4 Mar 2016
Is it true that 鈥渆very one percent unemployment goes up, 40,000 people die"?
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WSMoreOrLess: Antibiotics and the problem of the broken market
Fri 26 Feb 2016
The world needs new antibiotics so how do we entice big pharma back in to the market?
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WSMoreOrLess: When 拢10,000 isn鈥檛 a good incentive
Fri 19 Feb 2016
Could no prize have been a better way to motivate snooker player Ronnie O鈥橲ullivan?
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WSMoreOrLess: Fishy numbers?
Fri 12 Feb 2016
Will there be more plastic than fish in the sea by 2050?
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Selfies, sugar daddies and dodgy surveys
Fri 12 Feb 2016
Women taking selfies for more than five hours a day and other junk adverstising surveys.
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WSMoreOrLess: Do e-cigarettes really harm your chances of quitting smoking?
Mon 8 Feb 2016
Should research described as "misleading" and "not scientific" have been published?
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E-cigarettes: Can They Help People Quit?
Fri 5 Feb 2016
Do e-cigarettes harm your chances of quitting smoking? Tim Harford looks at the evidence.
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Swedish refugees
Fri 29 Jan 2016
Have refugees caused a gender imbalance in Sweden? Tim Harford finds out.
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How harmful is alcohol?
Fri 29 Jan 2016
Are there problems with the way we judge the harms from alcohol? Tim Harford finds out.
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WSMoreOrLess: Oxfam and Wealth Inequality
Mon 25 Jan 2016
Were Oxfam right to compare the wealth of the rich with that of the poor?
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Billionaires versus the world
Fri 22 Jan 2016
Does it matter that 62 people now own as much wealth as half of the world鈥檚 population?
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WS MoreOrLess: Gravitational Waves
Fri 15 Jan 2016
In search of a previously unobserved part of Einstein鈥檚 theory.
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Weekend Stroke Deaths
Fri 15 Jan 2016
Jeremy Hunt says if you have a stroke at the weekend, you're 20% more likely to die .
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Flood Defence Spending
Fri 8 Jan 2016
Is there a north-south divide in the amount of money spent on flood defences in England?
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WS MoreOrLess: Numbers of the Year 2015: Part Three
Thu 7 Jan 2016
Tim Harford looks back at some of the most interesting numbers making the news in 2015.
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WSMoreOrLess: Numbers of the Year 2015 Part 2
Thu 31 Dec 2015
Tim Harford looks back at some of the most interesting numbers of 2015.
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Numbers of the Year 2015
Thu 31 Dec 2015
A look back at some of the numbers behind the news in 2015 with Tim Harford.
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WS MoreOrLess: Numbers of the Year 2015 Part 1
Tue 22 Dec 2015
Tim Harford looks back at some of the most interesting numbers of 2015.
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WS MoreOrLess: How Many Stormtroopers are there?
Fri 18 Dec 2015
Are Star Wars鈥� Stormtroopers the biggest secret army on Earth?
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WS MoreOrLess:100 Year Floods?
Fri 11 Dec 2015
Do so-called 鈥�100 year floods鈥� only happen once a century?
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WS MoreOrLess: '鈥楽ympathy鈥� for jihadis
Fri 27 Nov 2015
Are claims that one in five British Muslims 鈥榮ympathise with jihadis鈥� correct?
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WS MoreOrLess: Has Islamic State been Losing Territory?
Mon 23 Nov 2015
Has so-called Islamic State been losing territory? Ruth Alexander investigates.
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.
