More or Less: Behind the Stats

More or Less: Behind the Stats

Tim Harford and the More or Less team investigate numbers in the news. Numbers are used in every area of public debate. But are they always reliable? More or Less tries to make sense of the statistics which surround us. A half-hour programme broadcast at 1330 on Friday afternoons and repeated at 2000 on Sundays on Radio 4.

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  • Festive freak show 1 Jan 10

    Fri, 1 Jan 10

    Duration:
    28 mins

    The ‘Freakonomics’ authors Stephen Dubner and Steven Levitt set the More or Less team a number of questions to answer: does handwashing prevent the spread of swine flu? Are Brits bad at cheating? What about the state of the nation's teeth? And has the congestion charge worked?

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