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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Tree planting pledges
Sat 7 Dec 2019
Are the tree planting initiatives proposed by different UK political parties achievable?
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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?
Sat 16 Nov 2019
We look at the numbers and statistics from Bolivia’s disputed presidential election
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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
Sat 9 Nov 2019
Can running and owning a dog reduce your risk of an early death?
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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
Sat 2 Nov 2019
How shelved data from rape cases in America is helping the police catch criminals now.
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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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Edith Abbott and crime statistics
Sat 26 Oct 2019
Social worker and economist Edith Abbott and her contribution to crime statistics.
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Esther Duflo and women in economics
Sat 19 Oct 2019
Discussing Esther Duflo, Abhijit Banjeree and Michael Kremer’s Nobel Prize in Economics.
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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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Aid to Ukraine and being struck by lightning
Sat 12 Oct 2019
Dissecting President Trump’s aid to Ukraine claims.
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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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Does San Francisco have more rough sleepers than Britain?
Sat 5 Oct 2019
Is it true that there are more rough sleepers in San Francisco than in Britain?
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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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Who fought in World War One and the American Civil War?
Sat 28 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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Peaty v Bolt: Which is the greatest world record?
Sat 21 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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Cape Town murders
Sat 14 Sep 2019
Are eight people a day murdered in Cape Town and is that number unusually high?
Unlock the history and truth behind the data with The OU
Explore how numbers shape, and sometimes mislead us, with The Open University.
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BBC Ideas discovers three easy ways to help make sense of statistics.
