More or Less Episodes Episode guide
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Nigeria - Rich or Poor?
How did Nigeria become the largest African economy overnight?
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Freedom in Numbers
How many people in the world live in freedom? First broadcast live on 01 April 2014.
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Freedom in Numbers
How many people in the world live in freedom?
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Is London France鈥檚 Sixth Largest City?
Are there really 300,000 French people in London?
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Missing Planes
Could Bayesian statistics help find Flight MH370?
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Mailbox Edition
Your questions 鈥� from the USA, Australia and the world
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Modern Slavery
Are there 21 million slaves in the world today?
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The 10,000 Hours Rule
Is it possible to become an expert on practice alone?
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Neknomination Outbreak
How quickly will the online global drinking craze Neknomination spread - and fizzle out?
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Love by Numbers
The maths behind modern matchmaking
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Rising Drug Overdose Deaths
Deaths from drug overdoses in the United States are on the rise 鈥� but why?
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Immigration
Tim Harford explores the economic benefits of immigration, plus wedding guest strategies.
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Alcohol and Cancer
Do two large glasses of wine triple the risk of mouth cancer?
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Could an Apple-a-day Reduce Illness?
A study has shown an apple-a-day will actually keep the doctors away but is it accurate?
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Counting the Dead in Iraq
How do you count those killed in war accurately?
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The Numbers of 2013 - Part Two
The most informative, interesting and idiosyncratic statistics of the year
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The Numbers of 2013 - Part One
The most informative, interesting and idiosyncratic statistics of the year
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Global Wine Shortage?
It is reported that global wine supplies are running low but do the figures add up?
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Genocide in South Africa?
Do crime stats show white South Africans are the victims of widespread racist killings?
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Testing the PISA test
Are the OECD PISA rankings really as definitive as people believe?
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Football Ranking Mysteries Explained
How has Switzerland attained a seed when the Netherlands, Italy and England have not?
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Could Statistics Cure Cancer?
Professor Terry Speed explains how statistics plays an important role in cancer research
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Sachin Tendulkar - the greatest, or just the 29th best test batsman of all time?
How do other measuring systems rate the Little Master?
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Does Politics Make us Get our Sums Wrong?
How researchers have measured the extent to which personal opinions cloud our judgement
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Have 100,000 Christians died as martyrs?
How true are claims that there is an unreported global war on Christians?
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How Long Can you Wait Until you Try to Have a Baby?
Why 300-year-old fertility statistics are still in use today
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Nobel Prize puzzle
How the economist who called markets efficient is sharing top award with his big critic.
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The Hawthorne Effect
The social study that showed that workers are more productive if they are given attention
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Have Mosquitoes Killed Half the World?
Have mosquitoes been responsible for the death of half the people who have ever lived?
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Is the World's Population Growing Out of Control?
Is Sir David Attenborough right about global population projections?
