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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The Referendum by Numbers: Law
Wed 15 Jun 2016
Tim Harford looks at how much of Britain's law comes from the EU.
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The Referendum by Numbers: Immigration
Tue 14 Jun 2016
Tim Harford on costs and benefits of EU migrants and what might happen if Britain left.
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The Referendum by Numbers: The Cost of EU Membership
Mon 13 Jun 2016
Tim Harford asks how much would be saved and what would be lost if Britain left the EU?
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WS More or Less: Refugee Camp Statistics
Fri 27 May 2016
Is it true that the average stay in a refugee camp is 17 years?
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WS More or Less: The World's Most Profitable Product
Fri 20 May 2016
Is the iPhone the most profitable product in history? What are the other contenders?
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WS More or Less: The world鈥檚 most diverse city
Fri 13 May 2016
Is it true that London is the most diverse city in the world?
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WS More or Less: Leicester City football fluke?
Mon 9 May 2016
The statistics behind the English Premier League鈥檚 surprise winners
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The most profitable product in history
Fri 6 May 2016
Can the iPhone claim this accolade? Plus, the statistics behind Leicester City's success
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WS More or Less: Simpson鈥檚 Paradox
Fri 29 Apr 2016
We explore how statistics can support two seemingly contradictory results.
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WS More or Less: Most Expensive Building
Mon 25 Apr 2016
How much to build The Great Pyramid, a nuclear power station, or an airport?
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WS More or Less: The life expectancy of a Pope
Mon 18 Apr 2016
Statistics show that the Head of the Catholic Church can expect to live to an old age
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WS More or Less: The story of average
Mon 11 Apr 2016
How astronomers introduced the world to the average.
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WS More or Less: The Great EU Cabbage Myth
Tue 5 Apr 2016
Does the European Union dedicate 26,911 words to cabbage regulation?
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The Great EU Cabbage Myth
Mon 4 Apr 2016
Does the European Union dedicate 26,911 words to cabbage regulation?
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WSMoreOrLess: Safe drinking
Thu 24 Mar 2016
UK Alcohol guidelines recommend drinking less 鈥� but do the numbers support them?
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WSMoreOrLess: Mobiles or lightbulbs
Fri 18 Mar 2016
Are there more mobile phones than lightbulbs in Uganda? And thyroid cancer in Fukushima.
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WSMoreOrLess: Can we trust food surveys?
Fri 11 Mar 2016
The pitfalls of nutrition science - how do really know what people are eating?
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WSMoreOrLess: Fact checking The Big Short
Fri 4 Mar 2016
Is it true that 鈥渆very one percent unemployment goes up, 40,000 people die"?
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WSMoreOrLess: Antibiotics and the problem of the broken market
Fri 26 Feb 2016
The world needs new antibiotics so how do we entice big pharma back in to the market?
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WSMoreOrLess: When 拢10,000 isn鈥檛 a good incentive
Fri 19 Feb 2016
Could no prize have been a better way to motivate snooker player Ronnie O鈥橲ullivan?
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WSMoreOrLess: Fishy numbers?
Fri 12 Feb 2016
Will there be more plastic than fish in the sea by 2050?
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Selfies, sugar daddies and dodgy surveys
Fri 12 Feb 2016
Women taking selfies for more than five hours a day and other junk adverstising surveys.
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WSMoreOrLess: Do e-cigarettes really harm your chances of quitting smoking?
Mon 8 Feb 2016
Should research described as "misleading" and "not scientific" have been published?
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E-cigarettes: Can They Help People Quit?
Fri 5 Feb 2016
Do e-cigarettes harm your chances of quitting smoking? Tim Harford looks at the evidence.
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.
