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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Could you be hit by a falling satellite?
Sat 14 Jun 2025
Investigating if 100,000 satellites could be orbiting earth in five years鈥� time
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Could you be hit by a falling satellite?
Sat 14 Jun 2025
Investigating if 100,000 satellites could be orbiting earth in five years鈥� time
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How do you make something 10-times more lethal?
Wed 11 Jun 2025
Plus, the Sycamore Gap tree, pensioner-worker ratios and yoga v fishers.
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Is the world鈥檚 population being miscounted?
Sat 7 Jun 2025
Investigating if the global population is really 2 billion higher than previously thought
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Is the world鈥檚 population being miscounted?
Sat 7 Jun 2025
Investigating if the global population is really 2 billion higher than previously thought
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Does the average American have fewer than three friends?
Wed 4 Jun 2025
Plus, skilled migrants, preventing Alzheimer鈥檚 and Robert Prevost on God and probability.
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Factchecking the Trump administration鈥檚 Autism claims
Sat 31 May 2025
Why has the rate of autism risen so dramatically in the last 30 years?
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Factchecking the Trump administration鈥檚 Autism claims
Sat 31 May 2025
Why has the rate of autism risen so dramatically in the last 30 years?
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Is the UN underestimating the global fall in fertility?
Sat 24 May 2025
How one graph shows the conservative side of the United Nations鈥� population estimates
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Is the UN underestimating the global fall in fertility?
Sat 24 May 2025
How one graph shows the conservative side of the United Nations鈥� population estimates
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How dead is the internet?
Sat 17 May 2025
We investigate the claim that bots make up 50% of internet traffic
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How dead is the internet?
Sat 17 May 2025
We investigate the claim that bots make up 50% of internet traffic
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Warren Buffett鈥檚 brilliant bets
Sat 10 May 2025
How retiring Berkshire Hathaway boss Warren Buffett made his money and made a point
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Warren Buffett鈥檚 brilliant bets
Sat 10 May 2025
How retiring Berkshire Hathaway boss Warren Buffett made his money and made a point
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Bonus episode: The Autism Curve
Mon 5 May 2025
The first episode of a new 麻豆社 series investigating the steep rise in autism diagnoses.
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Donald Trump: 100 days fact-check
Sat 3 May 2025
Working out the reality behind President Trump鈥檚 claims on immigration, fentanyl and eggs
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Donald Trump: 100 days fact-check
Sat 3 May 2025
Working out the reality behind President Trump鈥檚 claims on immigration, fentanyl and eggs
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Are 80% of women really only attracted to 20% of men?
Sat 26 Apr 2025
Dispelling an incel myth that featured in the Netflix drama Adolescence
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Are 80% of women really only attracted to 20% of men?
Sat 26 Apr 2025
Dispelling an incel myth that featured in the Netflix drama Adolescence
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The pioneers of proof
Sat 19 Apr 2025
Professor Adam Kucharski on his new book, Proof: The Uncertain Science of Certainty
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The pioneers of proof
Sat 19 Apr 2025
Professor Adam Kucharski on his new book, Proof: The Uncertain Science of Certainty
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How much is a human life worth?
Sat 12 Apr 2025
The Price of Life author Jenny Kleeman on the cost of making and taking a life
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How much is a human life worth?
Sat 12 Apr 2025
The Price of Life author Jenny Kleeman on the cost of making and taking a life
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The mistake in Trump鈥檚 tariff formula
Wed 9 Apr 2025
Also, counting bobbies, freezing tax and electrocuting redheads
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Trump tariffs: All about the deficits
Sat 5 Apr 2025
Explaining the maths and economics of the US 鈥楲iberation Day鈥� tariffs
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Trump tariffs: All about the deficits
Fri 4 Apr 2025
Explaining the maths and economics of the US 鈥楲iberation Day鈥� tariffs
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Is one in four people in the UK disabled?
Wed 2 Apr 2025
Plus, what has Canada done to Donald Trump? Is Rachel Reeves chasing the model?
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What鈥檚 Trump鈥檚 problem with Canada?
Sat 29 Mar 2025
Does the US subsidise Canada $200 billion a year and why does Trump call them nasty?
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What鈥檚 Trump鈥檚 problem with Canada?
Sat 29 Mar 2025
Does the US subsidise Canada $200 billion a year and why does Trump call them nasty?
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Could a 2% wealth tax raise 拢24bn?
Wed 26 Mar 2025
Plus, did trillions disappear from UK pensions? Why does the UK have a lot of old housing?
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.
