More or Less Podcast
Tim Harford explains - and sometimes debunks - the numbers and statistics used in political debate, the news and everyday life.
Episodes to download
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Have the oceans become 30% more acidic?
Sat 7 May 2022
Tim Harford asks how we measure the health of our oceans
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Have the oceans become 30% more acidic?
Sat 7 May 2022
Tim Harford asks how we measure the health of our oceans
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Sweden’s polarising pandemic response
Sat 30 Apr 2022
Has Sweden’s pandemic response been a triumph or a disaster…or something in-between?
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Sweden’s polarising pandemic response
Sat 30 Apr 2022
Has Sweden’s pandemic response been a triumph or a disaster…or something in-between?
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Understanding India through data
Sat 23 Apr 2022
What can data tell us about a country of 1.4 billion people?
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Understanding India through Data
Sat 23 Apr 2022
What can data tell us about a country of 1.4 billion people?
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Subitising and simplifying: how to better explain numbers
Sat 16 Apr 2022
How can we clearly explain complex numbers to the public without losing their meaning?
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Subitising and simplifying: how to better explain numbers
Fri 15 Apr 2022
How can we clearly explain complex numbers to the public without losing their meaning?
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Did tea-drinking cut deaths in the Industrial Revolution?
Sat 9 Apr 2022
How tea became an accidental lifesaver in 18th Century England.
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Did tea-drinking cut deaths in the Industrial Revolution?
Sat 9 Apr 2022
How tea became an accidental lifesaver in 18th Century England.
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Will the war in Ukraine cause a global wheat shortage?
Sat 2 Apr 2022
How much of the worlds wheat comes from Ukraine and Russia
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Will the war in Ukraine cause a global wheat shortage?
Sat 2 Apr 2022
How much of the worlds wheat comes from Ukraine and Russia
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Why has Hong Kong’s Covid wave been so bad?
Sun 27 Mar 2022
What’s behind one of the worst Covid death rates ever?
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Pizza and nuclear war
Sun 20 Mar 2022
How good negotiation can help us split pizzas fairly and also avoid nuclear war.
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Pizza and Nuclear War
Sun 20 Mar 2022
How good negotiation can help us split pizzas fairly and also avoid Nuclear War
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Does the UK take in more refugees than other European countries?
Sun 13 Mar 2022
Fact checking Boris Johnson’s claim
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Does the UK take in more refugees than other European countries?
Sun 13 Mar 2022
Fact checking Boris Johnson’s claim.
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Troop and Casualty Numbers in Ukraine
Wed 2 Mar 2022
How reliable are the figures coming out of the conflict in Ukraine?
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Vaccinating children, lockdowns, and ebikes
Wed 23 Feb 2022
Jabs for five- to 11-year-olds, lockdown effectiveness, and being green on two wheels.
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Hospitalisation rates for children with Covid
Sun 20 Feb 2022
Do 1 in 100 children who catch Covid end up hospitalised?
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Questioning claims about Covid and children
Wed 16 Feb 2022
How likely are children to end up in hospital because of Covid? And how many have died?
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The prime minister in statistical bother
Wed 9 Feb 2022
Boris Johnson has been ticked off for misleading Parliament on jobs and on crime.
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Unlock the history and truth behind the data with The OU
Explore how numbers shape, and sometimes mislead us, with The Open University.
When can you trust statistics?
BBC Ideas discovers three easy ways to help make sense of statistics.
