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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Deaths at Home, Supermarket Infections and the Cobra Effect
Wed 27 Jan 2021
Where are people catching Covid-19?
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Deaths at home, supermarket infections and the Cobra effect
Wed 27 Jan 2021
Where are people catching Covid-19?
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Counting Covid’s impact on GDP
Sat 23 Jan 2021
Which countries have done worse, and what can GDP tell us?
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Counting Covid’s impact on GDP
Sat 23 Jan 2021
Does GDP tell us whose economies have suffered most during Covid?
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Will the vaccine bring back normal life? GDP and Fishing
Wed 20 Jan 2021
If we vaccinate the top four priority groups by February, how much will things change?
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Will the vaccine bring back normal life? GDP and Fishing
Wed 20 Jan 2021
If we vaccinate the top four priority groups by February, how much will things change?
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How effective is one Covid vaccine dose?
Sat 16 Jan 2021
Calculating the protection given by the Pfizer/BioNtech vaccine
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How effective is one dose of the vaccine?
Thu 14 Jan 2021
Is the first dose of the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine 52% or 90% effective?
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How effective is one dose of the vaccine?
Wed 13 Jan 2021
Is the first dose of the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine 52% or 90% effective?
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QAnon: Child runaways and trafficking numbers debunked
Sat 12 Dec 2020
Tackling statistics spread by conspiracy theorists.
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QAnon: Child runaways and trafficking numbers debunked
Fri 11 Dec 2020
Tackling statistics spread by conspiracy theorists.
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Vaccines: How safe and who gets it?
Sat 5 Dec 2020
Is it too soon to approve for use? Plus choosing who goes first.
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Vaccines: how safe and who gets it?
Sat 5 Dec 2020
Is it too soon to approve a vaccine for use? Plus choosing who goes first.
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Tracking Covid 19
Sat 28 Nov 2020
Which countries are doing well at keeping track of the virus? And which are not?
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Inviting Covid for Dinner
Sat 21 Nov 2020
If you go to a gathering of 25 people, what are the chances one of you has coronavirus?
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Inviting Covid for Dinner
Sat 21 Nov 2020
If you go to a gathering of 25 people, what are the chances one of you has coronavirus?
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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.
