More or Less: behind the statistics
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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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Are women 14 times more likely to die in natural disasters?
Saturday, 27 July 2024
We unpick the idea that women outnumber men by 14 to 1 as casualties of natural disasters
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Is increasing turbulence making flying more dangerous?
Saturday, 20 July 2024
Exploring the link between bumpy flights and climate change
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Federer’s 54%: Tennis stats explained
Saturday, 13 July 2024
How Federer became the best in the world winning just over half the points he played
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The magic of trigonometry
Saturday, 6 July 2024
Tim Harford interviews Matt Parker on his latest book ‘Love Triangle’
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Election endings, tennis and meeting men in finance
Wednesday, 3 July 2024
Exit polls, election claims, and a 54% chance of winning a point in tennis
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How a tick box doubled the US maternal mortality rates.
Saturday, 29 June 2024
We investigate changes to the way the US gathers their maternal mortality statistics
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Election claims and erection claims
Wednesday, 26 June 2024
What did Liz Truss do to mortgage rates? Do erections use a litre of blood?
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Do ‘pig butchering’ cyber scams make as much as half Cambodia’s GDP?
Saturday, 22 June 2024
We investigate the money made by an international cybercrime operation
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Worse mortgages, better readers, and potholes on the moon
Wednesday, 19 June 2024
We check some of the numbers that are flying about in the election campaign
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Shakespeare’s maths
Saturday, 15 June 2024
Author Rob Eastaway on the numbers in Shakespeare’s writing
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Leaflets, taxes, oil workers and classrooms
Wednesday, 12 June 2024
We look at bad graphs, oil rig extrapolations and pupil populations
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Why medical error is not the third leading cause of death in the US
Saturday, 8 June 2024
Investigating how many deaths are caused by mistakes by doctors and nurses
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Debate, Reform, tax evasion and ants
Wednesday, 5 June 2024
Fact-checking the leaders' debate, tax evasion savings and the weight of ants
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Data for India
Saturday, 1 June 2024
Changing India in numbers: what type of country will the next administration lead?
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UK growth, prisons and Swiftonomics
Wednesday, 29 May 2024
Is the UK economy growing faster than Germany, France and the US?
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Is intermittent fasting going to kill you?
Saturday, 25 May 2024
Investigating research which suggested time restricted eating increased the risk of death.
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MP misconduct, NHS waiting lists and gold (gold)
Wednesday, 22 May 2024
Will it take 685 years to clear the NHS waiting list? Are 10% of MPs under investigation?
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Are falling marriage rates causing happiness to fall in the US?
Saturday, 18 May 2024
Investigating the relationship between matrimony and melancholy.
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Is reading for pleasure the single biggest factor in how well a child does in life?
Saturday, 11 May 2024
What research says about the connection between reading and success in later life.
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Do one in five young Americans think the holocaust is a myth?
Saturday, 4 May 2024
How problems with opt-in polling can lead to controversial headlines
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Has Milei fixed Argentina’s inflation problem?
Friday, 26 April 2024
What falling inflation means for Milei’s austerity plan and economic “shock” measures
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98%: Is misinformation being spread about a review of trans youth medicine?
Saturday, 20 April 2024
Investigating claims that the Cass Review ignored valuable evidence
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Tackling The Three-Body Problem
Saturday, 13 April 2024
Is the physics in Netflix's new show accurate?
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Is loneliness as bad for you as smoking?
Saturday, 6 April 2024
The connection between being alone and an early death
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Remembering Daniel Kahneman
Saturday, 30 March 2024
Tim Harford on the great social scientist, who has died at the age of 90
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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?