More or Less: behind the statistics
Tim Harford and the More or Less team try to make sense of the statistics which surround us. From BBC Radio 4
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Episodes
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Bonus episode: Daniel Kahneman on Thinking, Fast and Slow
Thursday, 28 March 2024
In an episode of More or Less from 2012, Daniel Kahneman explains his big ideas.
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What's happening to arctic ice?
Monday, 25 March 2024
Arctic ice has been in long decline. Do recent fluctuations change the story?
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Does the Russian government really spend 40% of its budget on the military?
Saturday, 16 March 2024
We investigate how much the Russian state is spending on the war in Ukraine.
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Is public speaking really our biggest fear?
Saturday, 9 March 2024
Tim Harford investigates the claim that public speaking is people’s number one fear.
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Ultramarathons: Are women faster than men?
Saturday, 2 March 2024
Is it really true that in extremely long races, women run faster than men?
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School spending, excess deaths and billions of animals at Heathrow
Wednesday, 28 February 2024
Is school funding at record levels? Did 6.5bn creatures come to the UK by plane last year?
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NBA basketball: Is height more important than skill?
Saturday, 24 February 2024
How much does a man’s height affect his chances of becoming an NBA basketball player?
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Per capita GDP, MP claims and the entire EU budget
Wednesday, 21 February 2024
What does per capita GDP tell us? How much did the EU spend on covid recovery?
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The digital ‘robots’ unlocking medical data
Saturday, 17 February 2024
Ben Goldacre on OpenSAFELY, protecting patient privacy while analysing health data
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Debt, students, shark and chips
Wednesday, 14 February 2024
What is the government’s rule on debt? Do 90% of chip shops sell shark and chips?
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The global gender split in young people’s politics
Saturday, 10 February 2024
Tim Harford investigates the growing political divergence between young men and women.
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Council tax weirdness: Hartlepool vs Westminster
Wednesday, 7 February 2024
Council tax comparisons, migration calculations and the carbon footprint of home-grown veg
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A pocket-size history of the calculator
Saturday, 3 February 2024
Tim Harford explores the history of calculators from clockwork to the Kashio brothers
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Measles, Traitors and the cost of Brexit
Wednesday, 31 January 2024
Is measles spreading? How much is Brexit costing? How good are they at traitor guessing?
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Is Oxfam right about the world’s richest and poorest people?
Saturday, 27 January 2024
We investigate how Oxfam use wealth stats to illustrate global inequality
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Shopping, shipping and wind chill-ing
Wednesday, 24 January 2024
We investigate the cost of a weekly shop and explore the workings of wind chill
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Are there more possible games of chess than atoms in the universe?
Saturday, 20 January 2024
We investigate how the vast possibilities in chess compare to the vastness of the universe
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Life expectancy, inheritance tax and the NHS vs winter
Wednesday, 17 January 2024
How long will we live? Who pays inheritance tax? How did the NHS perform this winter?
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Do we see 10,000 adverts per day?
Saturday, 13 January 2024
We investigate the claim that each of us sees thousands of adverts every single day
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Deaths, taxes and missing cats
Wednesday, 10 January 2024
We investigate claims about gun crime, the UK tax burden, and the number of missing cats
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How much money do the ‘Ndrangheta mafia make?
Saturday, 6 January 2024
We investigate whether one criminal group could have a turnover of billions of dollars
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Numbers of the year 2023
Saturday, 30 December 2023
Hand-picked stats that tell you something interesting about the world
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Can chocolate be better than salad?
Saturday, 23 December 2023
We investigate a nutritional conundrum – can chocolate ever be better for you than salad?
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China’s missing numbers
Saturday, 16 December 2023
How the Chinese state make inconvenient statistics disappear
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Does endurance sport harm your heart?
Saturday, 9 December 2023
We investigate the connection between high levels of exercise and arrhythmia
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Will there be a billion climate refugees?
Saturday, 2 December 2023
We investigate if floods, droughts and storms will cause mass international migration
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A boy meets girl meets stats story
Saturday, 25 November 2023
A data scientist takes on rom com films to see how women in STEM are represented.
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Are women in the UK the biggest binge drinkers in the world?
Saturday, 18 November 2023
Checking out stats on boozing Brits and fishing fleets in the South China Sea
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Can maths prove the existence of aliens?
Saturday, 11 November 2023
We look a famous equation which tries to explain whether life exists in outer space
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Do Indian women own 11% of the world’s gold?
Saturday, 4 November 2023
The cultural importance of gold is well known – but how much do Indians actually own?
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