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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Immigration
Fri 24 Jan 2014
What does a detailed look at immigration statistics tell us about the benefits, or of...
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WS MoreOrLess: An apple-a-day
Sat 18 Jan 2014
An apple-a-day will actually keep the doctors away, according to a study in the of the...
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Obesity crisis?
Fri 17 Jan 2014
Tim Harford discovers that health statistics contradict a report which says obesity is...
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How big are the Conservatives' planned cuts?
Thu 16 Jan 2014
The Conservatives' plans to achieve a budget surplus by 2019-20 have led to near that...
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WS MoreOrLess: Counting the Dead in Iraq
Sat 11 Jan 2014
In Iraq, estimates of the death count since the war started 2003 range from 100,000 to...
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The week that kills
Fri 10 Jan 2014
Most deaths occur in this week of the year - Tim Harford asks why. He also asks: are...
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WS MoreOrLess: The numbers of 2013 - part 2
Sat 4 Jan 2014
A guide to 2013 in numbers - the most informative, interesting and idiosyncratic of by...
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Pension Charges
Fri 3 Jan 2014
When the government announced that fees charged by pension providers could be capped,...
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WS MoreOrLess: The numbers of 2013 - part 1
Sat 28 Dec 2013
A guide to 2013 in numbers - the most informative, interesting and idiosyncratic of by...
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Numbers of the year
Fri 27 Dec 2013
A guide to 2013 in numbers - the most informative, interesting and idiosyncratic of by...
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WS MoreOrLess: Wine shortage?
Sat 21 Dec 2013
It has been reported that global wine supplies are running low. But shops still seem...
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Britain's 80,000 homeless children
Fri 20 Dec 2013
About 80,000 children will wake up homeless on Christmas Day, according to the charity...
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WS MoreOrLess: Genocide in South Africa?
Sat 14 Dec 2013
It is claimed white South Africans are being systematically killed because of the of...
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WS MoreOrLess: Testing the PISA test
Sat 7 Dec 2013
The publication of the latest international education league table has created waves...
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Football Ranking Mysteries Explained
Sat 30 Nov 2013
Ahead of the 2014 World Cup draw next Friday, we look at world football rankings.
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WS MoreOrLess: Could statistics cure cancer?
Sat 23 Nov 2013
Ruth Alexander speaks to a statistician at the forefront of cancer research, Professor...
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WS MoreOrLess: Sachin Tendulkar - best batsman of all time?
Sat 16 Nov 2013
Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar has amassed 15,847 test runs, which is 2,500 more runs than...
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WS MoreOrLess: Does politics make us get our sums wrong?
Sat 9 Nov 2013
To what degree do our personal opinions cloud our judgement? Yale University have to...
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100,000 Christian martyrs?
Sat 2 Nov 2013
It is claimed an average of 100,000 Christians have died because of their faith every...
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WS MoreOrLess: Fertility - when is too late?
Sat 26 Oct 2013
Women in their late thirties shouldn鈥檛 be as anxious about their prospects of having...
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WS MoreOrLess: Nobel Prize puzzle
Sat 19 Oct 2013
Tim Harford tells the story of how two economists who disagree with each other have...
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The Hawthorne Effect
Sat 12 Oct 2013
Tim Harford tells the story of the Hawthorne Experiments, one of the most famous of...
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WS MoreOrLess: Mosquitoes and elephants
Sat 5 Oct 2013
Has the mosquito killed half the people who have ever lived? Tim Harford assesses the...
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Underage drinking
Fri 4 Oct 2013
Are hundreds of young children visiting A&E because of alcohol? Plus, an update on the...
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WS MoreOrLess: Population explosion?
Sat 28 Sep 2013
"We just shut our eyes to the fact that the world's population is increasing out of...
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NHS hospital deaths
Fri 27 Sep 2013
Tim Harford examines the claim that NHS hospital patients are 45% more likely to die...
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Formula 1 racing risk
Sat 21 Sep 2013
'I accept every time I get in my car, there's a 20% chance I could die'.
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Do free school meals work?
Fri 20 Sep 2013
All pupils at infant schools in England are to get free school lunches from next but I...
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Sexual violence statistics in Asia
Sat 14 Sep 2013
Almost a quarter of men in some Asian countries admit rape, it has been reported.
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Fertility: when is too late?
Fri 13 Sep 2013
Psychologist Jean Twenge argues that women in their late thirties shouldn鈥檛 be as of...
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