More or Less: Behind the Stats Podcast
Tim Harford and the More or Less team try to make sense of the statistics which surround us. From 麻豆官网首页入口 Radio 4
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The maths of spies and terrorists
Sat 1 Jun 2013
In the wake of the Boston Marathon bombing and the killing of a British soldier on the...
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The maths of spies and terrorists
Fri 31 May 2013
After the killing of a British soldier on the streets of Woolwich in London, it that...
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Ryanair punctuality; mistakes in academic papers
Sun 26 May 2013
Tim Harford examines Ryanair鈥檚 claim that more than 90% of its flights land on time;...
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The economics of Scottish independence
Fri 24 May 2013
Tim Harford inspects the claims the UK Treasury and the Scottish government make about...
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Angelina Jolie鈥檚 87% cancer risk
Sat 18 May 2013
As Angelina Jolie announces that an 87% cancer risk has prompted her to have a double...
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Angelina Jolie鈥檚 87% cancer risk
Fri 17 May 2013
As Angelina Jolie announces that an 87% cancer risk has prompted her to have a double...
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How old is your dog?
Sat 11 May 2013
It's often said that one dog year equals seven human years. But is it true? Tim and or...
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How much does the EU cost the UK? Plus, dog years
Fri 10 May 2013
Tim Harford makes sense of the numbers being used in the political battle about the UK...
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The Maths of Mozart and Birds
Sat 4 May 2013
Birds + windows =? The 麻豆官网首页入口 Quiz show The Unbelievable Truth reckons that more than 2...
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Birds, Mozart, austerity, Thatcher
Fri 3 May 2013
Birds + windows =? The 麻豆官网首页入口 Quiz show The Unbelievable Truth reckons that more than 2...
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Are Man Utd a one-man team?
Sun 28 Apr 2013
More or Less creates the Alternative Premier League, with lead scorer goals chalked to...
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Austerity: a spreadsheet error?
Sun 21 Apr 2013
Tim Harford tells the story of the student who uncovered a mistake in a famous paper...
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Thatcher in numbers
Sat 13 Apr 2013
Baroness Margaret Thatcher, who has died aged 87, was Britain鈥檚 first female prime...
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Communicating Risk
Sat 6 Apr 2013
It鈥檚 the fourth anniversary of the earthquake which devastated the city of in Italy...
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That's not much gold
Sat 30 Mar 2013
What if a super-villain took control of the world's gold a melted it in to a cube? How...
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Can big data save lives?
Sat 23 Mar 2013
With an avalanche of 2. 5 quintillion bytes of data generated daily, could this be used...
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Are there more black men in college or prison in the US?
Sat 16 Mar 2013
Only last week Ivory Toldson heard the speaker say there are more black men in prison...
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HIV in numbers
Sat 9 Mar 2013
With the news that a baby has been 鈥榗ured鈥� of HIV what do the numbers tell us the...
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Is the Kenyan election already decided?
Sat 2 Mar 2013
Kenya votes for its next President on 4th March. The opinion polls show that it is the...
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Counting Catholics
Sat 23 Feb 2013
This week Tim Harford asks how the figure of 1. 2 billion Catholics world-wide is...
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How many people support Manchester United?
Sat 16 Feb 2013
This week Ruth Alexander looks at Manchester United versus Real Madrid in the last 16...
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The end of the Penny
Sat 9 Feb 2013
Canada has stopped distributing its smallest coin 鈥搕he one cent or the penny.
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A case of statistical significance in Greece
Sat 2 Feb 2013
This week Ruth Alexander looks at the extraordinary case of Andreas Georgiou the head...
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Fat or Fiction
Sat 26 Jan 2013
A 鈥榥ew鈥� BMI calculation has been proposed by Oxford Mathematician Professor Nick a...
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WS MoreOrLess: Indian Farmer Suicides
Sat 19 Jan 2013
This week Ruth Alexander is looking at farmer suicides in India. But is it any more in...
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Pop up economics
Wed 16 Jan 2013
Episode 1 of Tim Harford's new series, Pop Up Economics, in which he tells a live and...
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Food waste and Scrabble
Sat 12 Jan 2013
Reports this week suggest that we are wasting 50 per cent of our food globally.
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The Parable of the Ox
Fri 4 Jan 2013
What does a 'guess the weight of the ox' competition tells us about a bloated and We...
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The Parable of the Ox
Fri 4 Jan 2013
What does a 'guess the weight of the ox' competition tells us about a bloated and We...
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Numbers of 2012
Sat 29 Dec 2012
A special review of the year through the interesting, informative and idiosyncratic of...
