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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Inviting Covid for Dinner
Saturday
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?
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Covid testing capacity, refugee numbers, and mascara
Wed 16 Sep 2020
Confusing claims on lab capacity, the UK’s record on asylum, and the volume of eyelashes.
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Covid cases rising, a guide to life’s risks, and racing jelly-fish
Wed 9 Sep 2020
How worrying is the UK’s jump in cases? Plus balancing risks and the speed of jelly-fish.
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Schools and coronavirus, test and trace, maths and reality
Wed 2 Sep 2020
Evidence on Covid-19 risks in schools, data on contact tracing, and a philosophical query.
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Covid plasma therapy
Wed 26 Aug 2020
Claims about a Covid-19 treatment, breast cancer screening, and 18th century sex workers.
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A-level algorithms, poker and buses
Wed 19 Aug 2020
We unpick the A-level algoshambles and discover what poker teaches us about statistics.
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Belarus’ contested election
Sat 15 Aug 2020
Tim Harford looks at the numbers behind the widely questioned election result
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Hawaiian Pizza, obesity and a second wave?
Wed 12 Aug 2020
Covid-19 cases are rising in the UK - is it a sign of a second wave of the virus?
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Melting Antarctic ice
Sat 8 Aug 2020
If all the ice in Antarctica melted, would global sea levels rise by 70 metres?
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Covid misconceptions and US deaths
Sat 18 Jul 2020
How many of us believe the myths about coronavirus?
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Sweden’s lockdown lite
Sat 11 Jul 2020
Sweden stayed open during the pandemic – how well did it work?
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Why Trump is wrong about the USA’s coronavirus case comeback
Sat 4 Jul 2020
Are cases really rising in the US or are they just testing more? Tim digs into the data.
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Why did the UK have such a bad Covid-19 epidemic?
Wed 1 Jul 2020
Was it bad decision-making, bad advice, or bad luck?
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A new Covid-19 drug and a second wave
Sat 27 Jun 2020
Tim Harford looks into why protests haven’t led to a spike in Covid-19 cases
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Child Poverty, School Inequality and a Second Wave
Wed 24 Jun 2020
As lockdown eases, why hasn't there been a spike in infections?
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Who Should be Quarantined?
Sat 20 Jun 2020
Tim Harford finds out which countries have the highest rate of Covid-19 infection.
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Quarantine, Test and Trace and BODMAS
Wed 17 Jun 2020
Is it true that Covid-19 mostly kills people who would die soon anyway?
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Antibody tests, early lockdown advice and European deaths
Wed 10 Jun 2020
Are more people are dying of Covid-19 in the UK than all the EU countries put together?
