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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Maternal deaths, taxi driver earnings and statistical pop music
Fri 13 Sep 2019
Are black women five times more likely to die in childbirth? Plus making pop music.
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WS More or Less: Deforestation in Brazil
Mon 9 Sep 2019
Has it increased significantly since President Bolsonaro took office in January?
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Deforestation in Brazil
Sat 7 Sep 2019
Has it increased significantly since President Bolsonaro took office in January?
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Climate deaths, austerity and pet food
Fri 6 Sep 2019
Challenging the idea of six billion deaths due to climate change; plus what pets eat.
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WS More or Less: Amazon forest fires
Mon 2 Sep 2019
Are they really 85 percent worse than last year?
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Amazon fires, state pension and American burgers
Fri 30 Aug 2019
Are forest fires in Brazil the worst in recent times? What is the state pension worth?
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WS More or Less: Ethiopia’s 350m trees in a day
Mon 26 Aug 2019
Were millions of trees planted in just one day in Ethiopia?
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Ethiopia’s 350m trees in a day
Sat 24 Aug 2019
Were millions of trees planted in just one day in Ethiopia?
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Exam grades, Chernobyl and Ethiopian trees
Fri 23 Aug 2019
Was your A Level grade correct? Plus were 350m trees planted in one day in Ethiopia?
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Mice and mind blowing maths
Sat 17 Aug 2019
Re-inserting a caveat and discussing a really cool numbers trick.
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Mice and mind blowing maths
Fri 16 Aug 2019
Re-inserting a caveat and discussing a really cool numbers trick.
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Immigrant crime rates in the US
Sat 10 Aug 2019
Do immigrants commit more crime than native-born Americans in the United States?
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Immigrant Crime Rate in the US
Fri 9 Aug 2019
Do immigrants commit more crime than native-born Americans in the United States?
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The spread of fact-checking in Africa
Sat 3 Aug 2019
With misinformation so easy to spread, how can it be stopped or challenged?
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The spread of fact-checking in Africa
Fri 2 Aug 2019
With misinformation so easy to spread, how can it be stopped or challenged?
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Pregnancy prohibitions – the evidence
Sat 27 Jul 2019
Taking a statistical look at what expectant mothers should avoid
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Pregnancy prohibitions – the evidence
Fri 26 Jul 2019
Taking a statistical look at what expectant mothers should avoid.
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Zimbabwe’s economy: Are sanctions to blame?
Fri 19 Jul 2019
We look at politicians’ claims that sanctions are to blame for Zimbabwe’s difficulties.
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Zimbabwe’s economy: Are sanctions to blame?
Sat 13 Jul 2019
We look at politicians’ claims that sanctions are to blame for Zimbabwe’s difficulties.
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Is nuclear power actually safer than you think?
Sat 6 Jul 2019
We compare how deadly different forms of power generation are.
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Two World Cups: Football and Cricket
Fri 5 Jul 2019
We look at numbers involved with the two World Cups going on right now.
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Questioning the Chernobyl disaster death count
Sat 29 Jun 2019
We fact check the recent TV drama Chernobyl
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Is nuclear power actually safer than you think?
Fri 28 Jun 2019
We compare how deadly different forms of power generation are.
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Are married women flipping miserable?
Sat 22 Jun 2019
Questioning the claim that unmarried women without children are the happiest
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Questioning the Chernobyl disaster death count
Fri 21 Jun 2019
We fact check the recent TV drama Chernobyl
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Dealing with the numbers of cancer
Sat 15 Jun 2019
How one woman used statistics to help cope with cancer
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WS More or Less: Dealing with the Numbers of Cancer
Fri 14 Jun 2019
How one woman used statistics to help cope with cancer.
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.
