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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Election Special (2/2)
Last Tuesday
Labour's spending plans, Conservatives claims on homelessness, the SNP's education record
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Election Special 1/2
Tue 3 Dec 2019
50,000 nurses? 40 hospitals? Corporate tax rises? Tim Harford looks at Election pledges.
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Bolivia: Can statistics help detect electoral fraud?
Fri 15 Nov 2019
We look at the numbers and statistics from Bolivia’s disputed presidential election.
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Reducing your risk of death
Fri 8 Nov 2019
Can running and owning a dog reduce your risk of an early death?
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Unbelievable: The forgotten rape data
Fri 1 Nov 2019
How shelved data from rape cases in America is helping the police catch criminals now.
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Edith Abbott and crime statistics
Mon 28 Oct 2019
Social worker and economist Edith Abbott and her contribution to crime statistics.
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Esther Duflo and women in economics
Fri 18 Oct 2019
Discussing Esther Duflo, Abhijit Banerjee and Michael Kremer’s economics Nobel Prize.
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The Extra Episode: Minimum wage, drinking in Scotland and identical twins.
Fri 11 Oct 2019
Exploring how long one identical twin lives after the other twin dies.
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WS More or Less: Does San Francisco have more rough sleepers than Britain?
Mon 7 Oct 2019
Are the shocking statistics true? and how do you count people who don't wish to be found?
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New hospitals promised, aid to Ukraine, and bacon sandwiches
Fri 4 Oct 2019
Dissecting the government’s hospitals announcement and President Trump’s Ukraine claims.
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WS More or Less: Who fought in World War 1?
Mon 30 Sep 2019
Were a third of those that fought for Britain in WW1 black or Asian?
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Austerity Deaths, C-Sections and being struck by lightning
Fri 27 Sep 2019
Has Austerity caused 120 thousand deaths in the UK and does God hate men?
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WS More or Less: Peaty v. Bolt: Which is the greatest world record?
Mon 23 Sep 2019
Using statistics to compare world records in athletics and swimming.
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Dementia, inflation and shark deaths
Fri 20 Sep 2019
Health risks for Presidential hopefuls, falling inflation, shark deaths and salary claims
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WS More or Less: Cape Town murders
Mon 16 Sep 2019
Are eight people a day murdered in Cape Town and is that number unusually high?
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Maternal deaths, taxi driver earnings and statistical pop music
Fri 13 Sep 2019
Are black women five times more likely to die in childbirth? Plus making pop music.
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WS More or Less: Deforestation in Brazil
Mon 9 Sep 2019
Has it increased significantly since President Bolsonaro took office in January?
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Climate deaths, austerity and pet food
Fri 6 Sep 2019
Challenging the idea of six billion deaths due to climate change; plus what pets eat.
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WS More or Less: Amazon forest fires
Mon 2 Sep 2019
Are they really 85 percent worse than last year?
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Amazon fires, state pension and American burgers
Fri 30 Aug 2019
Are forest fires in Brazil the worst in recent times? What is the state pension worth?
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WS More or Less: Ethiopia’s 350m trees in a day
Mon 26 Aug 2019
Were millions of trees planted in just one day in Ethiopia?
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Exam grades, Chernobyl and Ethiopian trees
Fri 23 Aug 2019
Was your A Level grade correct? Plus were 350m trees planted in one day in Ethiopia?
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Mice and mind blowing maths
Fri 16 Aug 2019
Re-inserting a caveat and discussing a really cool numbers trick.
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Immigrant Crime Rate in the US
Fri 9 Aug 2019
Do immigrants commit more crime than native-born Americans in the United States?
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The spread of fact-checking in Africa
Fri 2 Aug 2019
With misinformation so easy to spread, how can it be stopped or challenged?
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Pregnancy prohibitions – the evidence
Fri 26 Jul 2019
Taking a statistical look at what expectant mothers should avoid.
