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: Could North Korea Wipe out 90% of Americans?
Mon 10 Apr 2017
Experts warn that North Korea could wipe out most Americans in one go.
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WS More or Less: Will one in four people develop a mental health problem?
Fri 31 Mar 2017
Is there evidence that one in four people will develop a mental health problem?
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WS More Or Less: Baby Boxes 鈥� are they really saving infant鈥檚 lives?
Fri 24 Mar 2017
They鈥檝e become a bit of a phenomenon but what鈥檚 the evidence that they work?
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More or Less: The concrete facts about Trump鈥檚 wall and China
Fri 17 Mar 2017
Did China use more concrete in three years than the US in the 20th Century?
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WS More or Less: The Attention Span of a Goldfish
Fri 10 Mar 2017
Are our attention spans now shorter than a goldfish's?
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WS More or Less: Why are Hollywood actresses paid less than men?
Fri 3 Mar 2017
Top Hollywood actresses have complained that they are paid less than their male co-stars
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WS More or Less: What happened last night in Sweden?
Fri 24 Feb 2017
What happened last night in Sweden?
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Hidden Figures: The Real Story
Fri 17 Feb 2017
.African American women's part in the space race of the '50s and '60s
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WS More or Less: Hans Rosling - the extraordinary life of a statistical guru
Sat 11 Feb 2017
A tribute to Hans Rosling, a master communicator with a passion for global development.
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WS More or Less: Is democracy failing in America?
Fri 3 Feb 2017
Does North Carolina really rank alongside North Korea if you measure electoral integrity
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WS More or Less: Counting Crowds
Fri 27 Jan 2017
How many went to celebrate 鈥� and how many to protest 鈥� the Trump inauguration?
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WS More or Less: Why January makes us want to scream
Fri 20 Jan 2017
Blue Monday and Oxfam's wealth of billionaires- the stories that come around every year
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WS More or Less: Christian Martyrs
Fri 13 Jan 2017
Were 90,000 Christians killed because of their faith in 2016?
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WS More or Less: Should we really be drinking eight glasses of water a day?
Fri 6 Jan 2017
How much water do we need and how much is too much?
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WS More or Less: Does Sweden Really Have a Six Hour Day?
Tue 3 Jan 2017
Can you reduce working hours without affecting productivity?
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The Haber-Bosch Process
Fri 23 Dec 2016
Saving lives with thin air - by taking nitrogen from the air to make fertiliser
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WS More or Less: Life, death and data
Fri 23 Dec 2016
Improving data to target help to the poorest people
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WS More or Less: Yellow cards for Christmas
Fri 16 Dec 2016
Are footballers trying to get suspended for Christmas?
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Have more famous people died this year?
Fri 16 Dec 2016
Notable deaths, Rule Britannia and creating your own Christmas speech
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WS More or Less: How risky is the contraceptive pill?
Mon 12 Dec 2016
We look at the numbers behind the scary headlines about birth control.
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How wrong were the Brexit forecasts?
Fri 9 Dec 2016
The economic doom that never was; childhood cancer figures and Ed Balls
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WS More or Less: How not to test public opinion
Fri 2 Dec 2016
The survey by the Indian PM that broke all the polling rules and started a mass protest
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Are you related to Edward III - and Danny Dyer?
Fri 2 Dec 2016
What are the odds of being related to a medieval king? and how many cows for a fiver?
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WS More or Less: Good news on renewables?
Mon 28 Nov 2016
Renewable capacity has surpassed that of coal鈥搃s this good news? Plus an asteroid update.
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Pensioners aren't poor anymore
Fri 25 Nov 2016
High-rolling pensioners? predicting Norovirus, air pollution deaths and lost or found?
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WS More or Less: Avoiding Asteroids
Mon 21 Nov 2016
We鈥檙e getting better at spotting Earth-bound space rocks 鈥� but how safe are we?
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Is dementia the number one killer?
Fri 18 Nov 2016
Is dementia on the rise? Plus immigration, incomplete contacts and chocolate muffins
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WS More or Less: Liberia鈥檚 Rape Statistic Debunked
Mon 14 Nov 2016
Is the claim that three out of four women were raped during Liberia's civil war true?
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US election, stray cats and puzzles
Fri 11 Nov 2016
Who voted in the US elections? Plus are there nine million stray cats in the UK?
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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