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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How many Americans live 鈥榩aycheck to paycheck鈥�?
Sat 14 Dec 2024
How many Americans live 鈥榩aycheck to paycheck鈥�?
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How many Americans live 鈥榩aycheck to paycheck鈥�?
Sat 14 Dec 2024
How many Americans live 鈥榩aycheck to paycheck鈥�?
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Did one in 10 Greeks die in World War Two?
Sat 7 Dec 2024
We investigate if 10 percent of the Greek population died during the second world war
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Did one in 10 Greeks die in World War Two?
Sat 7 Dec 2024
We investigate if 10 percent of the Greek population died during the second world war
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Can Elon Musk save the US Government $2 trillion?
Sat 30 Nov 2024
We look at whether DOGE can successfully balance the US budget.
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Can Elon Musk save the US Government $2 trillion?
Sat 30 Nov 2024
We look at whether DOGE can successfully balance the US budget.
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Do fossil fuels get $7 trillion in subsidies?
Sat 23 Nov 2024
We investigate a huge estimate for how much governments pay to support coal, gas and oil
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Do fossil fuels get $7 trillion in subsidies?
Sat 23 Nov 2024
We investigate a huge estimate for how much governments pay to support coal, gas and oil
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Did 20 million votes really go missing in the US election?
Sat 16 Nov 2024
We investigate a viral graph that suggests turnout was drastically lower than in 2020
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Did 20 million votes really go missing in the US election?
Sat 16 Nov 2024
We investigate a viral graph that suggests turnout was drastically lower than in 2020
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Do we have enough clothes for the next six generations?
Sat 9 Nov 2024
We delve into the stats on the scale of the fashion industry
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Do we have enough clothes for the next six generations?
Sat 9 Nov 2024
We delve into the stats on the scale of the fashion industry
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What can economics learn from sport?
Sat 2 Nov 2024
From loss aversion to game theory, how sports provide evidence for economic theories
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What can economics learn from sport?
Sat 2 Nov 2024
From loss aversion to game theory, how sports provide evidence for economic theories
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Are older drivers more dangerous?
Wed 30 Oct 2024
Plus, winter fuel deaths, prison sentence maths and leaves on railway tracks.
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Is Trump right about violent crime in Venezuela and the US?
Sat 26 Oct 2024
Donald Trump says Venezuela is becoming safer than the US. Is he right?
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Is Trump right about violent crime in Venezuela and the US?
Sat 26 Oct 2024
Donald Trump says Venezuela is becoming safer than the US. Is he right?
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Do US crime statistics miss out the most violent cities?
Wed 23 Oct 2024
Plus: MP capital gains claims and grizzly bear berry habits.
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Nobel Prize: Why are some countries so much richer than others?
Sat 19 Oct 2024
Why Acemoglu, Johnson and Robinson won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics
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Nobel prize: Why are some countries so much richer than others?
Sat 19 Oct 2024
Why Acemoglu, Johnson and Robinson won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics
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When are numbers like a horse at a gymkhana?
Wed 16 Oct 2024
Plus: the taxes of 60 very rich people, water bill spreadsheets, and is 0 a small number?
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Uncertainty, probability and double yoked eggs
Sat 12 Oct 2024
Professor Sir David Spiegelhalter on his new book, The Art of Uncertainty
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Uncertainty, probability and double yoked eggs
Sat 12 Oct 2024
Professor Sir David Spiegelhalter on his new book, The Art of Uncertainty
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Should the government target persnuffle?
Wed 9 Oct 2024
Plus, childhood obesity, birds hitting windows and Sir David Spiegelhalter鈥檚 origin story.
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Are 672 billion pounds of corn eaten in the US every year?
Sat 5 Oct 2024
A lot of corn is eaten in the United States, but is it really 2.5kg per person per day?
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Are 672 billion pounds of corn eaten in the US every year?
Sat 5 Oct 2024
A lot of corn is eaten in the United States, but is it really 2.5kg per person per day?
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How do you breed seventeen octillion rats?
Wed 2 Oct 2024
Plus, GPs working less, the UK working less, and Wetherspoons wanting to pay less tax.
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The puzzles you鈥檙e meant to get wrong
Sat 28 Sep 2024
Alex Bellos sets Tim Harford logical conundrums designed to deceive
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.
