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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WS More or Less: Do Assassinations Work?
Fri 9 Nov 2018
How likely are assassination attempts on heads of state to succeed?
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WS More or Less: Vaccines - The importance of the herd and social media
Sun 28 Oct 2018
What proportion of a population needs to be vaccinated to stop a disease spreading?
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WS More or Less: Foreign Aid: Who’s the most generous?
Fri 19 Oct 2018
In foreign aid terms what’s the best way of measuring how generous a country is?
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WS More or Less: Paul Romer and William Nordhaus’ Big Ideas
Fri 12 Oct 2018
The economists tackling climate change and growth.
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Loneliness, School Funding, Same-Sex Divorce
Tue 9 Oct 2018
A BBC loneliness survey, school funding, same-sex divorce and the loyalty of listeners.
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WS More or Less: Why are Lesbians More Likely to Divorce than Gay Men?
Sun 7 Oct 2018
Tim Harford talks to economist Marina Ashdade about same-sex divorce statistics.
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Loneliness; School Funding; Same-Sex Divorce.
Fri 5 Oct 2018
Tim Harford on a BBC loneliness survey; school funding; same-sex divorce; loyal listeners
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WS More of Less: Surviving the Battle of Britain
Mon 1 Oct 2018
Were Spitfire pilots killed after an average of four weeks in the World War Two battle?
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Surviving the Battle of Britain; the World Cup and Domestic Violence; Buckfast and Arrests in Scotland
Fri 28 Sep 2018
Tim Harford on Spitfire pilots, and whether football triggers violence in the home.
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WS More or Less: Trump and the Puerto Rico Death Toll
Mon 24 Sep 2018
How can we calculate excess mortality after a natural disaster?
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How Many Schoolchildren are Carers? Shareholder Income, and Museum Visitors Vs Football Fans
Fri 21 Sep 2018
Tim Harford on child carers, shareholder income, football vs museums and dangerous sports
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WS More or Less: DNA - Are You More Chimp or Neanderthal?
Mon 17 Sep 2018
What is the difference between 96% similarity or sharing 20% of our DNA?
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Male suicide, school ratings, are female tennis players treated unfairly by umpires?
Fri 14 Sep 2018
Tim Harford with statistics on suicide, good schools and sexism in tennis. Plus goats
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WS More or Less: The Safest Car in the World?
Mon 10 Sep 2018
A listener asks whether his Volvo is the safest car on the road?
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Heart Age Calculator; Danish Sperm Imports; Counting Goats
Fri 7 Sep 2018
Tim Harford questions the usefulness of a popular heart age calculator.
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WS: More or Less - How well do you understand your world?
Mon 3 Sep 2018
Tim Harford talks to Bobby Duffy about why we are often wrong about a lot of basic facts
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African Trade Tariffs; Alcohol Safe Limits; President Trump's Popularity
Fri 31 Aug 2018
Tim Harford fact checks EU trade deals with Africa, and whether one drink is one too many
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BONUS PODCAST: Economics with Subtitles - Coffins Full of Car Keys
Wed 29 Aug 2018
Why we have interest rates, how we misunderstand them - and a curious coffin connection.
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WS: More or Less - Automated fact-checking
Mon 27 Aug 2018
Computer programmes are being developed to combat fake news.
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A no-frills life, automated fact-checking and Lord-of-the-Rings maths
Fri 24 Aug 2018
What would have been the most efficient way to get to Mordor?
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BONUS PODCAST: Economics with Subtitles - How Condoms Can Cost a Week’s Wages
Wed 22 Aug 2018
Inflation can change your sex life – and pretty much everything else.
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WS More or Less: Are Wildfires Really Burning More Land?
Mon 20 Aug 2018
Are Wildfires in the United States and Southern Europe burning more land than before?
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BONUS PODCAST: Economics with Subtitles - Bracelets for Bullets
Wed 15 Aug 2018
Why an Essex mum wanted her jewellery melted down and what it says about government debt
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BONUS PODCAST: Economics with Subtitles - How Buying Cocaine Helps the Government
Wed 8 Aug 2018
The surprising story of GDP and whether it's time to change how we measure our economy
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Carbs, Sugar and the Truth
Fri 3 Aug 2018
Does a baked potato contain the equivalent of 19 cubes of sugar?
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Getting Creative with Statistics
Fri 27 Jul 2018
How big are your testicles and what does that mean?
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Should we have smaller families to save the planet?
Mon 23 Jul 2018
Having one fewer child could be the biggest thing you do to reduce your carbon footprint
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How to Cycle Really Fast
Fri 20 Jul 2018
How much better are the pros than the rest of us and how effective is slipstreaming?
