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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Is Apple worth more than Poland?
Fri 9 Mar 2012
Tim Harford explains why the technology giant Apple is not bigger than Poland, as have...
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Less than a dollar a day
Fri 2 Mar 2012
Tim Harford assesses how global poverty is measured, as the World Bank releases the on...
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Syria poll and Europe鈥檚 work hours
Fri 24 Feb 2012
Fifty-five per cent of Syrians do not think their leader President Assad should to of...
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Cybermetrics and Groundhog Day
Fri 17 Feb 2012
Can you measure your popularity 鈥� or that of anyone or anything 鈥� by the number of...
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Measuring famine
Fri 10 Feb 2012
How do you measure a famine? Following the UN鈥檚 recent announcement that famine have...
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More alive than dead?
Fri 3 Feb 2012
Tim Harford investigates one of the most popular questions from More or Less 鈥淎re It...
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Sizing up cities
Fri 27 Jan 2012
Which are the world鈥檚 biggest cities, and what are their populations? Two simple we...
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Climate bet; Africa Cup of Nations
Fri 20 Jan 2012
A four-year bet about global warming between two scientists is settled.
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Chavez's cancer claims
Sat 14 Jan 2012
President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela thinks the US may have developed a secret to give...
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High speed rail
Fri 13 Jan 2012
High Speed rail - Tim Harford speaks to railway consultant Chris Stokes and Alison HS2...
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Using statistics in court
Fri 6 Jan 2012
Tim Harford tackles the use of statistics in court, the average rise in rail fares,...
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2011 in numbers
Fri 30 Dec 2011
A guide to interesting, informative or just plain idiosyncratic numbers of the year.
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Who are the 1% and the 99%?
Fri 23 Dec 2011
Tim Harford on income inequality in the UK, and elsewhere. He speaks to Professor Sir...
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Higgs boson statistics
Fri 16 Dec 2011
In the week scientists at the Large Hadron Collider announced that the most coveted in...
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Pensions, and the Eurozone crisis.
Fri 2 Dec 2011
In the week of a nationwide strike over pension changes, Tim Harford explains how the...
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Brain Culture Part 3
Tue 29 Nov 2011
In a change to our usual format, we are podcasting Matthew Taylor's "Brain Culture"...
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Brain Culture Part 2
Tue 22 Nov 2011
In a change to the usual format, we are podcasting Matthew Taylor's "Brain Culture"...
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Brain Culture Part 1
Tue 15 Nov 2011
In a change to the usual format, we are podcasting Matthew Taylor鈥檚 series 鈥淏rain...
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Government waste
Fri 9 Sep 2011
In More or Less this week: Government waste, a logic puzzle, the statistics of spying,...
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A Euro Debt Odyssey
Fri 2 Sep 2011
In this week's More or Less: a Euro debt odyssey, the placebo effect and 70 years of...
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Scottish Independence
Fri 26 Aug 2011
On this week's More or Less: Scottish independence, mobile phones and cancer, and is...
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Is salt bad for you?
Fri 19 Aug 2011
More or Less has the latest on salt, 'zero tolerance' policing, and how to predict the...
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The maths of rioting
Fri 12 Aug 2011
In More or Less this week: riots, debt, disability benefit and when to buy a lotto ticket.
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Public Sector Pay
Fri 13 May 2011
Investigating the public sector pay premium, statins and the 'decline effect'.
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Climate Refugees
Sun 8 May 2011
More or Less looks at child poverty, climate refugees and Sir Henry Cooper's greatest...
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Wedding Stats
Fri 29 Apr 2011
In More or Less this week: a cornucopia of wedding-related numbers. And AV explained.
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How useful is GDP?
Fri 22 Apr 2011
Tim Harford and team look at GDP, school standards and the results of 'The Other Census'.
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Youth Unemployment
Fri 8 Apr 2011
In More or Less this week: youth unemployment, Trumpton and social mobility.
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Small spending cuts?
Fri 1 Apr 2011
Tim Harford is back with a new series of More or Less, and the numbers behind the news.
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.
