More or Less Episodes Episode guide
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Less than a dollar a day
Tim Harford assesses how global poverty is measured, as the World Bank releases the on...
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Leaflets, taxes, oil workers and classrooms
We look at bad graphs, oil rig extrapolations and pupil populations
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Koalas
Have bushfires destroyed 80% of the koala habitat in Australia?
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Killed for being female?
Are 100 million women missing from the world? A listener asks More or Less to explore...
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Kidney donation: the chance of finding a match
The chance of a successful kidney match between two unrelated people has increased in...
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Kenya鈥檚 Election Rounding Error
Official figures didn鈥檛 add up - but due to rounding, not fraud.
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Keep your distance
Tim Harford examines how can we avoid infection spreading, while getting on with life.
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Jubilee costs, fuel poverty and imperial measures
We debunk a claim the government is spending 拢38,000 per household on the Jubilee
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Jab fears explained: a base rate fallacy
Why increasing Covid infections amongst the vaccinated isn鈥檛 necessarily bad news
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Is your housework split sexist?
Corinne Low explains the economics of women, men and housework
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Is Uganda about to become a middle income country?
We assess President Museveni鈥檚 claim that Uganda is nearing a higher economic status.
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Is Trump right that wind turbines are killing millions of birds?
Investigating the scale of bird deaths caused by wind turbines
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Is Trump right about violent crime in Venezuela and the US?
Donald Trump says Venezuela is becoming safer than the US. Is he right?
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Is this Premier League striker a secret maths genius?
Tim Harford explains the numbers and statistics in the news and in life.
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Is there really $500bn of Rare Earths in Ukraine?
Trump wants access to Ukraine鈥檚 Rare Earth deposits.
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Is there a stock market crash coming?
Can data tell us if a stock market crash is coming?
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Is the world鈥檚 population being miscounted?
Investigating if the global population is really 2 billion higher than previously thought
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Is the world getting less miserable?
Exploring global polling data that suggests people in more countries are "thriving"
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Is the US Census Under Threat?
The survey question that could affect the accuracy of its results.
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Is the UN underestimating the global fall in fertility?
How one graph shows the conservative side of the United Nations鈥� population estimates
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Is the UK seeing a Christian revival?
Plus: PIP claims, immigrant returns and spotting golf balls on the moon.
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Is the UK really ahead in cutting carbon emissions?
As the UK changes course in its path to net zero, how does it compare with other nations?
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Is the Kenyan election already decided?
Kenya votes for its next President on 4th March. The opinion polls show that it is the...
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Is strenuous jogging bad for you?
Tim Harford on claims that keen runners might be damaging their health.
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Is Steph Curry cheap and how random is random?
Evaluating the biggest basketball contract in NBA history, plus Ryanair鈥檚 seat allocation
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Is salt bad for you?
More or Less has the latest on salt, 'zero tolerance' policing, and how to predict the...
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Is RFK right about US sperm counts?
Do US teens have 50% lower sperm and testosterone counts than 65 year old men?
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Is RFK Jr right about China's diabetes rate?
Investigating if 50% of people in China really have diabetes
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Is reading for pleasure the single biggest factor in how well a child does in life?
What research says about the connection between reading and success in later life.
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Is public speaking really our biggest fear?
Tim Harford investigates the claim that public speaking is people鈥檚 number one fear.
