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: Are Wildfires Really Burning More Land?
Yesterday
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
Last Wednesday
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.
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WS More or Less: Tulipmania mythology
Mon 14 May 2018
What is the truth behind the 17th Century Dutch craze for Tulips?
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Abortion, modern slavery, math versus maths
Fri 11 May 2018
The British abortion statistics gaining attention in Ireland's referendum debate
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WS More or Less: Exposing the biases we have of the world
Mon 7 May 2018
Statistician Hans Rosling’s family talk about the book they co-wrote about preconceptions
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Cancer screening, the Windrush Generation, Audiograms
Fri 4 May 2018
Calculating the benefits and risks of breast screening. Plus, patchy citizenship data.
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WS More or Less: Puerto Rico - statistics versus politics
Sun 29 Apr 2018
Why some fear the statistics authority is about to lose its independence
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Straws, women on boards, plus animals born each day
Fri 27 Apr 2018
Measuring plastic pollution, female FTSE directors and counting animal offspring.
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WS More or Less: How Should We Think About Spending?
Fri 20 Apr 2018
Tim Harford talks to economist Dan Ariely about the psychology of money.
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WS More More or Less: Are We Breathing Unsafe Air?
Fri 13 Apr 2018
The W.H.O. say 95% of people in cities breathe unsafe air, but what does 'unsafe' mean?
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WS More or Less: Why London’s Murder Rate is Being Compared to New York’s
Sun 8 Apr 2018
Finding out if London is now more deadly than New York.
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WS More or Less: How Deadly Was 1920s Melbourne?
Thu 29 Mar 2018
We investigate the murder rate in popular crime series Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries.
