More or Less: Behind the Stats Podcast
Tim Harford and the More or Less team try to make sense of the statistics which surround us. From BBC Radio 4
Episodes to download
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Covid 19 death count: which countries are faring worst?
Last Saturday
Tim Harford finds out if we can trust international comparisons with the available data.
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Comparing death counts, Lock Down drinking and Long Covid
Wed 17 Feb 2021
Is the UK’s Covid 19 death count among the worst in the world? Plus are we drinking more?
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How much Covid in the World?
Sat 13 Feb 2021
Counting all the virus particles in every human on the planet.
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Brexit exports, cladding and are 1 in 5 disabled?
Wed 10 Feb 2021
Are exports to the EU down since Brexit? Plus removing flammable building cladding.
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Glasgow vs Rwanda
Sat 6 Feb 2021
Could life expectancy in some parts of Glasgow be worse than in Rwanda?
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Deaths at Home, Supermarket Infections and the Cobra Effect
Wed 27 Jan 2021
Where are people catching Covid-19?
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Deaths at home, supermarket infections and the Cobra effect
Wed 27 Jan 2021
Where are people catching Covid-19?
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Counting Covid’s impact on GDP
Sat 23 Jan 2021
Does GDP tell us whose economies have suffered most during Covid?
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Will the vaccine bring back normal life? GDP and Fishing
Wed 20 Jan 2021
If we vaccinate the top four priority groups by February, how much will things change?
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How effective is one dose of the vaccine?
Thu 14 Jan 2021
Is the first dose of the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine 52% or 90% effective?
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QAnon: Child runaways and trafficking numbers debunked
Fri 11 Dec 2020
Tackling statistics spread by conspiracy theorists.
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Vaccines: how safe and who gets it?
Sat 5 Dec 2020
Is it too soon to approve a vaccine for use? Plus choosing who goes first.
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Tracking Covid 19
Sat 28 Nov 2020
Which countries are doing well at keeping track of the virus? And which are not?
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Inviting Covid for Dinner
Sat 21 Nov 2020
If you go to a gathering of 25 people, what are the chances one of you has coronavirus?
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US election: facts or fiction
Sat 24 Oct 2020
Tim Harford hears about the sheer volume of false claims made in the campaign.
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Auction Theory - Paul Milgrom and Robert Wilson
Sat 17 Oct 2020
This year’s Nobel memorial prize winners for economics and their work on auction theory.
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Spreadsheet snafu, ‘Long Covid’ quantified, and the birth of probability
Wed 7 Oct 2020
Missing coronavirus case data, long-term symptoms, and a big mathematical moment.
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“Record” Covid cases, Trump on the death count, and ant pheromones
Wed 30 Sep 2020
Case counts in perspective, a suspect stat from the US, and life lessons from insects.
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Covid curve queried, false positives, and the Queen’s head
Wed 23 Sep 2020
How fast are coronavirus cases doubling? Plus testing confusion and a royal face-off.
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The magical maths of pool testing
Sat 19 Sep 2020
Could pool testing hold the key to ramping up Covid-19 testing?
