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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The puzzles you鈥檙e meant to get wrong
Sat 28 Sep 2024
Alex Bellos sets Tim Harford logical conundrums designed to deceive
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Could the winter fuel cut cost more than it saves?
Wed 25 Sep 2024
Plus, ONS transgender stats, early-onset cancer, and puzzles you鈥檙e meant to get wrong.
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Do 85% of the world鈥檚 population practice a religion?
Sat 21 Sep 2024
Counting religions across the globe 鈥� is the world getting more religious or less?
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Do 85% of the world鈥檚 population practice a religion?
Sat 21 Sep 2024
Counting religions across the globe 鈥� is the world getting more religious or less?
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How do you count millionaires?
Wed 18 Sep 2024
Plus, asylum seeker costs, private school bets and Baumol's cost disease
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Nate Silver: Do risk-takers run the world?
Sat 14 Sep 2024
Poker player and polling analyst Nate Silver on his new book
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Nate Silver: Do risk-takers run the world?
Sat 14 Sep 2024
Poker player and polling analyst Nate Silver on his new book
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How long does it take to turn around an oil tanker?
Wed 11 Sep 2024
Plus migrants v pensioners and Ed Miliband鈥檚 energy auction claim.
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Who pays when trade wars heat up?
Sat 7 Sep 2024
We look at Donald Trump鈥檚 claim that tariffs are a tax on other countries
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Who pays when trade wars heat up?
Sat 7 Sep 2024
We look at Donald Trump鈥檚 claim that tariffs are a tax on other countries
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Exclusions, black holes and dividing by zero
Wed 4 Sep 2024
Plus special educational needs in Wales and Ghanaian nurses in the UK.
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Where have Cuba鈥檚 people gone?
Sat 31 Aug 2024
We investigate the collapse in the Caribbean island鈥檚 population.
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Where have Cuba鈥檚 people gone?
Sat 31 Aug 2024
We investigate the collapse in the Caribbean island鈥檚 population
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Do we eat a credit card's worth of microplastic each week?
Sat 24 Aug 2024
We look at whether humans really ingest five grams of microplastic on a weekly basis
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Do we eat a credit card's worth of microplastic each week?
Sat 24 Aug 2024
We look at whether humans really ingest five grams of microplastic on a weekly basis
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Are companies making more money from their customers?
Sat 17 Aug 2024
We investigate claims mark-ups are larger than ever
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Are companies making more money from their customers?
Sat 17 Aug 2024
We investigate claims mark-ups are larger than ever
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Is planet Earth getting greener?
Sat 10 Aug 2024
Jordan Peterson says Earth has greened by 20% in 20 years. Is he right?
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Is planet Earth getting greener?
Sat 10 Aug 2024
Jordan Peterson says Earth has greened by 20% in 20 years. Is he right?
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Does a language die every two weeks?
Sat 3 Aug 2024
Languages are disappearing. We investigate claims of how often this happens
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Does a language die every two weeks?
Sat 3 Aug 2024
Languages are disappearing. We investigate claims of how often this happens.
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Are women 14 times more likely to die in natural disasters?
Sat 27 Jul 2024
We unpick the idea that women outnumber men by 14 to 1 as casualties of natural disasters
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Are women 14 times more likely to die in natural disasters?
Sat 27 Jul 2024
We unpick the idea that women outnumber men by 14 to 1 as casualties of natural disasters
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Is increasing turbulence making flying more dangerous?
Sat 20 Jul 2024
Exploring the link between bumpy flights and climate change.
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Is increasing turbulence making flying more dangerous?
Sat 20 Jul 2024
Exploring the link between bumpy flights and climate change
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Federer鈥檚 54%: Tennis stats explained
Sat 13 Jul 2024
How Federer became the best in the world winning just over half the points he played
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Federer鈥檚 54%: Tennis stats explained
Sat 13 Jul 2024
How Federer became the best in the world winning just over half the points he played
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The magic of trigonometry
Sat 6 Jul 2024
Tim Harford interviews Matt Parker on his latest book 鈥楲ove Triangle鈥�
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The magic of trigonometry
Sat 6 Jul 2024
Tim Harford interviews Matt Parker on his latest book 鈥楲ove Triangle鈥�
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Election endings, tennis and meeting men in finance
Wed 3 Jul 2024
The UK's money troubles, NHS managers and a 54% chance of winning a point in tennis.
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.
