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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Magic Numbers
Fri 18 Apr 2014
Do you have a favourite number - one you love, one you think stands out from all the...
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Nigeria - rich or poor?
Fri 11 Apr 2014
Nigeria's bureau of statistics has overhauled the way it calculates the country's GDP...
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Freedom in Numbers
Fri 4 Apr 2014
How many people in the world live in freedom? The 蘑菇短视频's Freedom 2014 season got Tim or...
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Is London France鈥檚 sixth largest city?
Sat 29 Mar 2014
Are there really be 300,000 French people in London and would they really want to for...
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Missing planes
Sat 22 Mar 2014
Could Bayesian statistics find Flight MH370 from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing? This niche...
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Mailbox edition
Sat 15 Mar 2014
Your questions answered - Do the Maasai in Africa number one million? Is it true that...
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WS MoreOrLess: Modern Slavery
Sat 8 Mar 2014
Are there 21 million slaves in the world today? Director of 12 Years a Slave, Steve at...
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WS MoreOrLess: Neknomination Outbreak
Sat 22 Feb 2014
The rise and fall of an online epidemic: How studying the spread of infectious the out...
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Love by numbers
Sat 15 Feb 2014
Can economics help you find love? Tim Harford and the team look at the maths behind...
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Rising drug overdose deaths
Sat 8 Feb 2014
In the US, more people are dying from drug overdoses than from road traffic accidents...
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The 10,000 hours rule
Sat 1 Feb 2014
Becoming a pro on practice alone 鈥� is that possible? Or do you need innate talent? a...
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WS MoreOrLess: Immigration
Sat 1 Feb 2014
How much do migrants cost or benefit a nation? Plus, planning a wedding - when you and...
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The 50p tax rate
Fri 31 Jan 2014
Chancellor George Osborne says a 50p tax rate does not bring in much revenue; Shadow...
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WS MoreOrLess: Alcohol risk
Sat 25 Jan 2014
Do two large glasses of wine triple your risk of mouth cancer, as claimed on a health...
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Immigration
Fri 24 Jan 2014
What does a detailed look at immigration statistics tell us about the benefits, or of...
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WS MoreOrLess: An apple-a-day
Sat 18 Jan 2014
An apple-a-day will actually keep the doctors away, according to a study in the of the...
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Obesity crisis?
Fri 17 Jan 2014
Tim Harford discovers that health statistics contradict a report which says obesity is...
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How big are the Conservatives' planned cuts?
Thu 16 Jan 2014
The Conservatives' plans to achieve a budget surplus by 2019-20 have led to near that...
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WS MoreOrLess: Counting the Dead in Iraq
Sat 11 Jan 2014
In Iraq, estimates of the death count since the war started 2003 range from 100,000 to...
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The week that kills
Fri 10 Jan 2014
Most deaths occur in this week of the year - Tim Harford asks why. He also asks: are...
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WS MoreOrLess: The numbers of 2013 - part 2
Sat 4 Jan 2014
A guide to 2013 in numbers - the most informative, interesting and idiosyncratic of by...
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Pension Charges
Fri 3 Jan 2014
When the government announced that fees charged by pension providers could be capped,...
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WS MoreOrLess: The numbers of 2013 - part 1
Sat 28 Dec 2013
A guide to 2013 in numbers - the most informative, interesting and idiosyncratic of by...
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Numbers of the year
Fri 27 Dec 2013
A guide to 2013 in numbers - the most informative, interesting and idiosyncratic of by...
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WS MoreOrLess: Wine shortage?
Sat 21 Dec 2013
It has been reported that global wine supplies are running low. But shops still seem...
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Britain's 80,000 homeless children
Fri 20 Dec 2013
About 80,000 children will wake up homeless on Christmas Day, according to the charity...
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WS MoreOrLess: Genocide in South Africa?
Sat 14 Dec 2013
It is claimed white South Africans are being systematically killed because of the of...
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WS MoreOrLess: Testing the PISA test
Sat 7 Dec 2013
The publication of the latest international education league table has created waves...
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Football Ranking Mysteries Explained
Sat 30 Nov 2013
Ahead of the 2014 World Cup draw next Friday, we look at world football rankings.
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WS MoreOrLess: Could statistics cure cancer?
Sat 23 Nov 2013
Ruth Alexander speaks to a statistician at the forefront of cancer research, Professor...
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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.
