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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WS More or Less: Trump and the Puerto Rico Death Toll
Mon 24 Sep 2018
How can we calculate excess mortality after a natural disaster?
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How many schoolchildren are carers? Counting shareholder income, Museum visitors vs football fans
Sun 23 Sep 2018
Tim Harford on child carers, shareholder income, football, museums and dangerous sports.
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WS More or Less: DNA - Are You More Chimp or Neanderthal?
Mon 17 Sep 2018
What is the difference between 96% similarity or sharing 20% of our DNA?
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Male suicide, School ratings, Are female tennis players treated unfairly by umpires?
Sun 16 Sep 2018
Tim Harford on what statistics tell us about suicide, good schools and sexism in tennis.
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WS More or Less: The Safest Car in the World?
Mon 10 Sep 2018
A listener asks whether his Volvo is the safest car on the road?
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Heart age calculator; Danish sperm imports; the size of the services sector; the 'safest car on the road'; counting goats.
Fri 7 Sep 2018
Tim Harford questions the usefulness of a popular heart age calculator.
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WS: More or Less - How well do you understand your world?
Mon 3 Sep 2018
Tim Harford talks to Bobby Duffy about why we are often wrong about a lot of basic facts
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African Trade Tariffs; Alcohol Safe Limits; President Trump's Popularity
Fri 31 Aug 2018
Tim Harford fact checks EU trade deals with Africa, and whether one drink is one too many
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BONUS PODCAST: Economics with Subtitles - Coffins Full of Car Keys
Wed 29 Aug 2018
Why we have interest rates, how we misunderstand them - and a curious coffin connection.
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WS: More or Less - Automated fact-checking
Mon 27 Aug 2018
Computer programmes are being developed to combat fake news.
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A no-frills life, automated fact-checking and Lord-of-the-Rings maths
Fri 24 Aug 2018
Tim Harford on no-frills living, automated fact-checking and Lord-of-the-Rings maths.
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BONUS PODCAST: Economics with Subtitles - How Condoms Can Cost a Week鈥檚 Wages
Wed 22 Aug 2018
Inflation can change your sex life 鈥� and pretty much everything else.
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WS More or Less: Are Wildfires Really Burning More Land?
Mon 20 Aug 2018
Are Wildfires in the United States and Southern Europe burning more land than before?
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Are Wildfires Really Burning More Land?
Sat 18 Aug 2018
Are Wildfires in the United States and Southern Europe burning more land than before?
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BONUS PODCAST: Economics with Subtitles - Bracelets for Bullets
Wed 15 Aug 2018
Why an Essex mum wanted her jewellery melted down and what it says about government debt
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BONUS PODCAST: Economics with Subtitles - How Buying Cocaine Helps the Government
Wed 8 Aug 2018
The surprising story of GDP and whether it's time to change how we measure our economy
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Carbs, Sugar and the Truth
Fri 3 Aug 2018
Does a baked potato contain the equivalent of 19 cubes of sugar?
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Getting Creative with Statistics
Fri 27 Jul 2018
How big are your testicles and what does that mean?
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Should we have smaller families to save the planet?
Mon 23 Jul 2018
Having one fewer child could be the biggest thing you do to reduce your carbon footprint
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How to Cycle Really Fast
Fri 20 Jul 2018
How much better are the pros than the rest of us and how effective is slipstreaming?
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Should We Have Smaller Families To Save The Planet?
Sat 14 Jul 2018
Having one fewer child could be the biggest thing you do to reduce your carbon footprint
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Are there more stars than grains of beach sand?
Fri 6 Jul 2018
Stars vs Sand. We work out who wins the ultimate cosmic battle.
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Running at the World Cup
Fri 29 Jun 2018
Is it strange that Russian football players have run such big distances?
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How many words do you need to speak a language?
Fri 22 Jun 2018
How many words do you need to speak a language and how many do native speakers use?
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WS More or Less: How Many Animals are Born Every Day?
Sun 10 Jun 2018
From penguins to nematodes - is it possible to count how many animals are born every day?
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Infant Mortality, How to Reduce Exam Revision With Maths, London鈥檚 Murder Rate
Fri 8 Jun 2018
Tim Harford explains how maths can help lazy students can reduce their revision workload
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The High Street, Home Births and Harry Potter Wizardry
Fri 1 Jun 2018
Is WH Smith really the worst shop on the High Street?
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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麻豆社 Ideas discovers three easy ways to help make sense of statistics.
