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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Pensions, and the Eurozone crisis.
Fri 2 Dec 2011
In the week of a nationwide strike over pension changes, Tim Harford explains how the...
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Brain Culture Part 3
Tue 29 Nov 2011
In a change to our usual format, we are podcasting Matthew Taylor's "Brain Culture"...
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Brain Culture Part 2
Tue 22 Nov 2011
In a change to the usual format, we are podcasting Matthew Taylor's "Brain Culture"...
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Brain Culture Part 1
Tue 15 Nov 2011
In a change to the usual format, we are podcasting Matthew Taylor鈥檚 series 鈥淏rain...
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Government waste
Fri 9 Sep 2011
In More or Less this week: Government waste, a logic puzzle, the statistics of spying,...
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A Euro Debt Odyssey
Fri 2 Sep 2011
In this week's More or Less: a Euro debt odyssey, the placebo effect and 70 years of...
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Scottish Independence
Fri 26 Aug 2011
On this week's More or Less: Scottish independence, mobile phones and cancer, and is...
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Is salt bad for you?
Fri 19 Aug 2011
More or Less has the latest on salt, 'zero tolerance' policing, and how to predict the...
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The maths of rioting
Fri 12 Aug 2011
In More or Less this week: riots, debt, disability benefit and when to buy a lotto ticket.
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Public Sector Pay
Fri 13 May 2011
Investigating the public sector pay premium, statins and the 'decline effect'.
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Climate Refugees
Sun 8 May 2011
More or Less looks at child poverty, climate refugees and Sir Henry Cooper's greatest...
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Wedding Stats
Fri 29 Apr 2011
In More or Less this week: a cornucopia of wedding-related numbers. And AV explained.
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How useful is GDP?
Fri 22 Apr 2011
Tim Harford and team look at GDP, school standards and the results of 'The Other Census'.
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Youth Unemployment
Fri 8 Apr 2011
In More or Less this week: youth unemployment, Trumpton and social mobility.
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Small spending cuts?
Fri 1 Apr 2011
Tim Harford is back with a new series of More or Less, and the numbers behind the news.
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The Story of Economics 'Monsters'
Wed 30 Mar 2011
In this three-part series Michael Blastland lays out the history of economic ideas to...
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The Story of Economics 'Cogs'
Wed 23 Mar 2011
'More or Less' creator Michael Blastland goes to Chicago to explore a machine-like of...
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The Story of Economics 'Gods'
Wed 16 Mar 2011
More or Less creator Michael Blastland lays out the history of economic ideas to why...
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Health check
Fri 21 Jan 2011
The Government says Britain's health care standards have fallen behind those of our...
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Street grooming
Fri 14 Jan 2011
We look at street grooming, examine the new bank taxes, revisit Ambridge in the wake...
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Big numbers
Fri 7 Jan 2011
More or Less examines this week's claims and counter-claims about VAT, exposes some -...
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2010 in numbers
Fri 31 Dec 2010
Tim Harford and the More or Less team explore 2010 in numbers. Happy New Year to all...
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What the Dickens?
Christmas Eve 2010
Boom. Bust. Bah humbug. Tim Harford narrates 'A More or Less Christmas Carol' in which...
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Council of despair
Fri 17 Dec 2010
Local government budgets are being cut. More or Less looks at how the pie is sliced on...
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Degrees of Debt
Fri 10 Dec 2010
We look at the numbers behind the increase in the cap on undergraduate tuition fees in...
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Gay Britain
Fri 1 Oct 2010
Tim Harford and the More or Less team examine the micromort measure of risk and on...
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How welfare works
Fri 24 Sep 2010
Tim Harford and the More or Less team examine more numbers in the news. Fast.
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Who earns more?
Fri 17 Sep 2010
Who earns more: private or public employees? And are your trousers flattering you?
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Back to school
Fri 10 Sep 2010
More or Less looks at how maths is taught in schools today and it asks what the of the...
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