More or Less Podcast
Tim Harford explains - and sometimes debunks - the numbers and statistics used in political debate, the news and everyday life.
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How a tick box doubled the US maternal mortality rates.
Sat 29 Jun 2024
We investigate changes to the way the US gathers their maternal mortality statistics
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How a tick box doubled the US maternal mortality rates.
Sat 29 Jun 2024
We investigate changes to the way the US gathers their maternal mortality statistics
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Election claims and erection claims
Wed 26 Jun 2024
What did Liz Truss do to mortgage rates? Do erections use a litre of blood?
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Do 鈥榩ig butchering鈥� cyber scams make as much as half Cambodia鈥檚 GDP?
Sat 22 Jun 2024
We investigate the money made by an international cybercrime operations.
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Do 鈥榩ig butchering鈥� cyber scams make as much as half Cambodia鈥檚 GDP?
Sat 22 Jun 2024
We investigate the money made by an international cybercrime operation
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Worse mortgages, better readers, and potholes on the moon
Wed 19 Jun 2024
We check some of the numbers that are flying about in the election campaign.
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Leaflets, taxes, oil workers and classrooms
Wed 12 Jun 2024
We look at bad graphs, oil rig extrapolations and pupil populations.
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Why medical error is not the third leading cause of death in the US
Sat 8 Jun 2024
Investigating how many deaths are caused by mistakes by doctors and nurses
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Why medical error is not the third leading cause of death in the US
Sat 8 Jun 2024
Investigating how many deaths are caused by mistakes by doctors and nurses
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Debate, Reform, tax evasion and ants
Wed 5 Jun 2024
Fact-checking the leaders' debate, tax evasion savings and the weight of ants.
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Data for India
Sat 1 Jun 2024
Changing India in numbers: what type of country will the next administration lead?
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Data for India
Sat 1 Jun 2024
Changing India in numbers: what type of country will the next administration lead?
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UK growth, prisons and Swiftonomics
Wed 29 May 2024
Is the UK economy growing faster than Germany, France and the US?
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Is intermittent fasting going to kill you?
Sat 25 May 2024
Investigating research which suggested time restricted eating increased the risk of death
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Is intermittent fasting going to kill you?
Sat 25 May 2024
Investigating research which suggested time restricted eating increased the risk of death.
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MP misconduct, NHS waiting lists and gold (gold)
Wed 22 May 2024
Will it take 685 years to clear the NHS waiting list? Are 10% of MPs under investigation?
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Are falling marriage rates causing happiness to fall in the US?
Sat 18 May 2024
Investigating the relationship between matrimony and melancholy.
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Are falling marriage rates causing happiness to fall in the US?
Sat 18 May 2024
Investigating the relationship between matrimony and melancholy.
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Is reading for pleasure the single biggest factor in how well a child does in life?
Sat 11 May 2024
What research says about the connection between reading and success in later life.
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Is reading for pleasure the single biggest factor in how well a child does in life?
Sat 11 May 2024
What research says about the connection between reading and success in later life.
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Do one in five young Americans think the holocaust is a myth?
Sat 4 May 2024
How problems with opt-in polling can lead to controversial headlines
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Do one in five young Americans think the holocaust is a myth?
Sat 4 May 2024
How problems with opt-in polling can lead to controversial headlines
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Has Milei fixed Argentina鈥檚 inflation problem?
Sat 27 Apr 2024
What falling inflation means for Milei鈥檚 austerity plan and economic 鈥渟hock鈥� measures
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Has Milei fixed Argentina鈥檚 inflation problem?
Fri 26 Apr 2024
What falling inflation means for Milei鈥檚 austerity plan and economic 鈥渟hock鈥� measures
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Is misinformation being spread about a review of trans youth medicine?
Sat 20 Apr 2024
Investigating claims that the Cass Review ignored 98% of valuable evidence
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98%: Is misinformation being spread about a review of trans youth medicine?
Sat 20 Apr 2024
Investigating claims that the Cass Review ignored valuable evidence
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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.
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