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: DNA - Are You More Chimp or Neanderthal?
Monday
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?
Last Friday
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?
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Are there more stars than grains of beach sand?
Fri 6 Jul 2018
Stars vs Sand. We work out who wins the ultimate cosmic battle.
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Running at the World Cup
Fri 29 Jun 2018
Is it strange that Russian football players have run such big distances?
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How many words do you need to speak a language?
Fri 22 Jun 2018
How many words do you need to speak a language and how many do native speakers use?
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WS More or Less: How Many Animals are Born Every Day?
Sun 10 Jun 2018
From penguins to nematodes - is it possible to count how many animals are born every day?
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Infant Mortality, How to Reduce Exam Revision With Maths, London’s Murder Rate
Fri 8 Jun 2018
Tim Harford explains how maths can help lazy students can reduce their revision workload
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The High Street, Home Births and Harry Potter Wizardry
Fri 1 Jun 2018
Is WH Smith really the worst shop on the High Street?
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WS More or Less: Australia Calling
Mon 28 May 2018
Do one in seven businessmen throw out their underwear after wearing them once?
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Forecasting rain, teabags and voter ID trials
Fri 25 May 2018
How to read the weather forecast, plus measuring the amount of tea we drink.
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WS More or Less: James Comey - Basketball Superstar?
Mon 21 May 2018
Does being very tall improve your chances of becoming a professional basketball player?
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Poverty, Progress 8 and how green is grass?
Fri 18 May 2018
Are more working families in poverty? Plus exploring the new school league tables.
