More or Less Episodes Episode guide
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Species in Decline?
The coverage of the Living Planet Index and its claim that species populations have in...
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Social housing, NHS workforce and Liz Truss debt claims
Have the Tories really built a record number of social rent homes since 2010?
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Social Distancing and Government Borrowing
Where do the different social distancing measurements come from?
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Soaring diabetes - is there some good news?
Diabetes cases are soaring, but is this down to new diagnoses? Tim Harford investigates.
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Small spending cuts?
Tim Harford is back with a new series of More or Less, and the numbers behind the news.
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Skin cancer, London rents and your great great great granddaughter
Is it true that 1 in 4 men and 1 in 5 women in the UK will get skin cancer?
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Sizing up cities
Which are the world鈥檚 biggest cities, and what are their populations? Two simple we...
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Sir Roger Bannister's 鈥榠mpossible鈥� feat
Sir Roger Bannister became the first man to run a mile in under four minutes 60 ago.
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Simpson鈥檚 Paradox: How to make vaccinated death figures misleading
A tricky statistical phenomenon at play.
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Silicon Valley Bank: a very modern bank run
How do bank runs happen?
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Should you wear a face mask?
Tim Harford looks at the debate over making your own Covid-19 protection.
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Should you follow the 5 second rule? And does inflation hit the poorest harder?
Does inflation hit poor households harder and how many people have died of Covid?
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Should we have smaller families to save the planet?
Having one fewer child could be the biggest thing you do to reduce your carbon footprint
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Should the government target persnuffle?
Plus, childhood obesity, birds hitting windows and Sir David Spiegelhalter鈥檚 origin story.
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Shopping, shipping and wind chill-ing
We investigate the cost of a weekly shop and explore the workings of wind chill
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Shakespeare鈥檚 maths
Author Rob Eastaway on the numbers in Shakespeare鈥檚 writing
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Shakespeare vs Rappers
It's a 'fact' beloved of English teachers around the world: that Shakespeare, the in...
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Sexual violence statistics in Asia
Almost a quarter of men in some Asian countries admit rape, it has been reported.
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Sex, coal, missing people and mice
Are we having less sex? And what happened to coal? (These items are unrelated.)
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Sex on the Brain?
Parents take note 鈥� what can numbers reveal about bringing up children? Plus, Tim if...
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Sex Every Seven Seconds
We revisit some classic topics from past years
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Sex and the world wide web
The world of porn is often exaggerated but does it really make up 37% of the web? And...
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Seven-day NHS
Tim Harford asks if people admitted to hospital at weekends are more likely to die.
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Selfies, sugar daddies and dodgy surveys
Women taking selfies for more than five hours a day and other junk adverstising surveys.
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Screening for Ebola
Are airport screenings for Ebola really an effective way of stopping transmission of a...
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Scottish referendum polls
Tim Harford talks to pollsters about how they are trying to gauge the political mood...
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Scottish Independence
On this week's More or Less: Scottish independence, mobile phones and cancer, and is...
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Scotland cases, flood risk and taxing the poor
Covid 19 cases are on the rise in Scotland, plus will your town be under water by 2030?
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Schools and coronavirus, test and trace, maths and reality
Evidence on Covid-19 risks in schools, data on contact tracing, and a philosophical query.
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School spending, excess deaths and billions of animals at Heathrow
Is school funding at record levels? Did 6.5bn creatures come to the UK by plane last year?
