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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Queuing Backwards
Fri 4 Sep 2015
Would life be better if we served the last person to join a queue not the first.
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Fit for work or at deaths door?
Fri 4 Sep 2015
Are thousands dying after being declared 'fit for work' by the government? Is sugar bad?
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WS MoreOrLess: China Stock Market Crash
Fri 28 Aug 2015
The Chinese stock market may have crashed but was it really 鈥楤lack Monday鈥�?
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China Stock Market Crash
Fri 28 Aug 2015
The Chinese markets may have crashed but was it really Black Monday? with Tim Harford
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WS MoreOrLess: The Elliptical Pool Table
Fri 21 Aug 2015
Tim Harford tests the geometric properties of an elliptical pool table.
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Soaring diabetes - is there some good news?
Fri 21 Aug 2015
Diabetes cases are soaring, but is this down to new diagnoses? Tim Harford investigates.
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WS More or Less: Wrestlers - dying too young?
Fri 7 Aug 2015
Are WWE stars more likely to die sooner than their non-wrestling peers?
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WSMoreOrLess: Counting Foreign Fighters
Fri 31 Jul 2015
How many foreigners have joined militants in Iraq and Syria, and where do they come from?
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WS MoreOrLess: Live 8, The G8 and Making Poverty History
Fri 17 Jul 2015
What has been achieved in the ten years since Live 8 sought to Make Poverty History?
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Greece Special
Sun 12 Jul 2015
Tim Harford looks at the numbers to tell the story of the Greek crisis.
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Greece Special
Fri 10 Jul 2015
Tim Harford and the More or Less team look at the numbers behind the Greek crisis.
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Biggest Movies
Fri 26 Jun 2015
Jurassic World took $511m in its first weekend. Why have recent films done so well?
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WS MoreOrLess: Horoscope Health
Fri 19 Jun 2015
Can your horoscope predict which diseases you鈥檒l develop?
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WS MoreOrLess: Global Footprint
Fri 12 Jun 2015
Do we need one and a half planets worth of resources? Tim Harford investigates.
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Obesity Projections, Global Footprint, Street Value of Drugs
Fri 12 Jun 2015
Tim Harford looks at how recent obesity projections were calculated.
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WS MoreOrLess: Qatar migrant worker deaths
Fri 5 Jun 2015
Tim Harford asks if the World Cup is really responsible for migrant deaths in Qatar.
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World Cup Migrant Deaths
Fri 5 Jun 2015
Tim Harford asks if the World Cup is really responsible for migrant deaths in Qatar.
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Seven-day NHS
Fri 29 May 2015
Tim Harford asks if people admitted to hospital at weekends are more likely to die.
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WS MoreOrLess: Death Penalty
Sat 23 May 2015
Death Row exoneration statistics. Recently it鈥檚 been claimed that for every nine in...
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Female Drink Drivers
Fri 22 May 2015
The Police Federation says female drivers aren鈥檛 heeding the drink drive warnings.
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WS MoreOrLess: Big Numbers
Sat 16 May 2015
How computers are fooled by big numbers. Chris Baraniuk, technology journalist, talks...
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Strokes, Teachers, Confused Computers 15 May15
Fri 15 May 2015
Are stroke numbers on the rise? This was according to recent headlines.
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WS MoreOrLess: Princess Charlotte
Fri 8 May 2015
The birth of Princess Charlotte could contribute 拢1 billion to the British economy,...
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Election and Adultery Special
Fri 8 May 2015
Tim Harford and a panel of experts discuss pre-election polls and election fact checking.
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UK election podcast 4
Wed 6 May 2015
Why don鈥檛 all the opinion polls give the same results? Plus, would Labour鈥檚 plan a...
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WS MoreOrLess: Nuns on the rise
Sat 2 May 2015
It was recently reported that the number of women training to become Catholic nuns in...
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