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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Polls, nuns and life partners
Fri 1 May 2015
On the eve of the UK's general election, Tim Harford takes a look at what polling data...
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UK Election Podcast 3
Fri 24 Apr 2015
Are we witnessing a jobs 鈥榤iracle鈥�? Also under scrutiny - Scotland鈥檚 deficit; a...
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WS MoreOrLess: Xenophobia in South Africa
Fri 24 Apr 2015
Are migrants 鈥榮tealing鈥� jobs; does South Africa have more asylum seekers than any...
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UK election podcast 2
Fri 17 Apr 2015
Fact-checking the politicians during the election campaign on NHS funding; rail fares...
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WS MoreOrLess: Liver Transplant.
Fri 17 Apr 2015
A young listener who needs a liver transplant has received an offer from his brother a...
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UK election podcast 1
Mon 13 Apr 2015
Can you trust the figures given to you by the political parties during the UK's We and...
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WS MoreOrLess: The Ignorance Test
Fri 10 Apr 2015
Professor Hans Rosling - perhaps best-described as a kind of international development...
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WS MoreOrLess: Maths and Chess
Sat 4 Apr 2015
Is it really true that ability in mathematics and chess are somehow linked? Tim pits a...
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WS MoreOrLess: How safe is flying?
Sat 28 Mar 2015
The Germanwings A320 tragedy, in which 150 people died, is the latest in a series of...
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Does Breastfeeding Increase IQ?
Sat 21 Mar 2015
A major 30-year study claims to show breastfed babies become more intelligent, higher...
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WS MoreOrLess: Measuring World Health
Sat 14 Mar 2015
Babies born in Rwanda are likely to live healthier lives than those in the most 10% of...
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WS MoreOrLess: The future of food
Sat 7 Mar 2015
"In the next 40 years, humans will need to produce more food that they did in the a of...
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WS MoreOrLess: Black prisoners in the US
Sat 28 Feb 2015
Oscar-winner John Legend said that there are more black men "under correctional in the...
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WS MoreOrLess: Sleeping: the 8-hour myth
Sat 21 Feb 2015
It鈥檚 often said that we should all be aiming to get eight hours of sleep a night but...
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The mathematical secrets to relationships
Sat 14 Feb 2015
How maths can help you find love, and hold on to it. Plus, we hear a collection of our...
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WS MoreOrLess: Is strenuous jogging bad for you?
Sat 7 Feb 2015
Tim Harford asks whether claims that keen runners might be damaging their health are...
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Is strenuous jogging bad for you?
Fri 6 Feb 2015
Tim Harford on claims that keen runners might be damaging their health.
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WS MoreOrLess: The maths of dating
Sat 31 Jan 2015
How to use mathematics to find your life partner. Plus: what are the chances that two...
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Cameron鈥檚 1000 jobs
Fri 30 Jan 2015
Fact-checking the Conservatives' employment claims; the price of milk; unhappy how to...
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WS MoreOrLess: Global Wealth
Sat 24 Jan 2015
Who is in the world's wealthiest elite, and where do they live? Which are the world's...
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Is anti-Semitism widespread in the UK?
Fri 23 Jan 2015
Are the majority of hate crimes in the UK directed against Jewish people? Plus: who 1%...
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WS MoreOrLess: Are 95% of Terrorism Victims Muslim?
Sat 17 Jan 2015
In the wake of the Paris killings, an imam in Paris told the 麻豆社 that most terrorism...
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WS MoreOrLess: Bad Luck and Cancer
Sat 10 Jan 2015
Most cancers are caused by "bad luck" according to reports of a new study.
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A&E waiting times
Fri 9 Jan 2015
The NHS in England has missed its four-hour A&E waiting time target with performance a...
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WS MoreOrLess: Numbers of the Year part 3.
Sat 3 Jan 2015
What is the most important number in the world? Robert Peston tells us and Helen Joyce...
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Numbers of the Year 2014.
Fri 2 Jan 2015
Tim Harford and guests look back at some of the weird and wonderful numbers of 2014.
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WS MoreOrLess: Numbers of the Year part 2.
Sat 27 Dec 2014
How optimistic are people about the future? The 麻豆社's Evan Davis tells More or Less as...
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WS MoreOrLess: Numbers of the Year part 1.
Sat 20 Dec 2014
What is so special about 39,222 Mexican teachers? In the first of three episodes back...
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WS MoreOrLess: Soviet World War Deaths
Fri 12 Dec 2014
Did almost 80% of the males born in the Soviet Union in 1923 not survive World War as...
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WS MoreOrLess: Zimbabwe's Economy
Fri 5 Dec 2014
Zimbabwe鈥檚 budget provided a fascinating insight into the country鈥檚 economy last week.
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.
