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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How much Covid in the world?
Sat 13 Feb 2021
Counting all the virus particles in every human on the planet.
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How much Covid in the World?
Sat 13 Feb 2021
Counting all the virus particles in every human on the planet.
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Brexit exports, cladding and are 1 in 5 disabled?
Wed 10 Feb 2021
Are exports to the EU down since Brexit? Plus removing flammable building cladding.
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Glasgow vs Rwanda
Sat 6 Feb 2021
Could life expectancy in some parts of Glasgow be worse than in Rwanda?
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Glasgow vs Rwanda
Sat 6 Feb 2021
Could life expectancy in some parts of Glasgow be worse than in Rwanda?
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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鈥檚 impact on GDP
Sat 23 Jan 2021
Which countries have done worse, and what can GDP tell us?
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Counting Covid鈥檚 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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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?
麻豆社 Ideas discovers three easy ways to help make sense of statistics.
