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  1. More or Less: How reliable is Kevin Pietersen?

    Kevin Pietersen has been widely praised as one of the best England batsmen of the era...

  2. More boys than girls in Sweden?

    Exploring if an influx of teenage boys claiming asylum skewed the population鈥檚 sex ratio

  3. More alive than dead?

    Tim Harford investigates one of the most popular questions from More or Less 鈥淎re It...

  4. Mitigation or Suppression: What鈥檚 best to tackle Coronavirus?

    How statistical modelling can help us respond to the Coronavirus pandemic

  5. Missing women from drug trials

    How medical testing on just men causes problems.

  6. Missing planes

    Could Bayesian statistics find Flight MH370 from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing? This niche...

  7. Missed appointments, graduate pay, plus cocaine on bank notes

    Do missed appointments cost the NHS 拢1 billion? And do you always earn more with a degree?

  8. Migrant Crisis

    A "swarm" of migrants heading for Europe? Are the numbers really up?

  9. Mice and mind blowing maths

    Re-inserting a caveat and discussing a really cool numbers trick.

  10. Melting Antarctic ice

    If all the ice in Antarctica melted, would global sea levels rise by 70 metres?

  11. Measuring famine

    How do you measure a famine? Following the UN鈥檚 recent announcement that famine have...

  12. Measles, Traitors and the cost of Brexit

    Is measles spreading? How much is Brexit costing? How good are they at traitor guessing?

  13. Maths and the Mayflower

    Are there really 35 million descendants of the Mayflower alive today?

  14. Maternity litigation, stars, bees and windowless planes

    Are damages for maternity mistakes now more than wages for maternity nurses and doctors?

  15. Maternal deaths, taxi driver earnings and statistical pop music

    Are black women five times more likely to die in childbirth? Plus making pop music.

  16. Maryam Mirzakhani 鈥� A Genius of Maths

    Celebrating the only woman to win the biggest prize in mathematics.

  17. Male suicide, school ratings, are female tennis players treated unfairly by umpires?

    Tim Harford with statistics on suicide, good schools and sexism in tennis. Plus goats

  18. Making music out of Money

    A musical interpretation of a chart depicting the yield-curve of American bonds.

  19. Mailbox edition

    Your questions answered - Do the Maasai in Africa number one million? Is it true that...

  20. Magic Numbers

    Do you have a favourite number - one you love, one you think stands out from all the...

  21. Lula鈥檚 鈥渮ero deforestation鈥� plan for the Amazon

    How much of the rainforest has been lost? And can Brazil鈥檚 new president save it?

  22. Love by numbers

    Can economics help you find love? Tim Harford and the team look at the maths behind...

  23. Long Covid and Vaccinating Children

    The world watches as the UK lifts its remaining Covid restrictions

  24. Loneliness; School Funding; Same-Sex Divorce.

    Tim Harford on a 麻豆社 loneliness survey; school funding; same-sex divorce; loyal listeners

  25. Loneliness, School Funding, Same-Sex Divorce

    A 麻豆社 loneliness survey, school funding, same-sex divorce and the loyalty of listeners.

  26. Living standards and Kate Bush maths

    Are people's incomes falling? Plus singing Pi like Kate Bush

  27. Life-saving economics

    Professor Al Roth tells Tim Harford about the work for which he has just been awarded...

  28. Life expectancy, inheritance tax and the NHS vs winter

    How long will we live? Who pays inheritance tax? How did the NHS perform this winter?

  29. Lib Dem ambulance claims, affordable rent and goat meat

    Did 120 people a day in England die last year whilst waiting for an ambulance?

  30. Levelling the statistical playing field

    Given that some countries are richer than others, and some have larger populations, us...

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