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
Episodes to download
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Will the population of Nigeria be larger than Europe鈥檚?
Sun 2 Jan 2022
Will Nigeria鈥檚 population really reach 600million?
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Does catching covid give you more immunity than being vaccinated?
Sun 12 Dec 2021
Infection vs injection: Could prior infection provide 27 times more protection?
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Does wearing a mask halve your chances of getting Covid-19?
Sun 5 Dec 2021
Is it true wearing a mask reduces Covid-19 incidence by 53%?
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Simpson鈥檚 Paradox: How to make vaccinated death figures misleading
Sun 28 Nov 2021
A tricky statistical phenomenon at play.
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The carbon cost of breakfast at COP26
Sun 14 Nov 2021
Can a vegan croissant really be worse for the environment than a bacon roll?
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Same data, opposite results. Can we trust research?
Sun 7 Nov 2021
Why the same data can produce different conclusions.
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The art of counting
Sun 31 Oct 2021
Tim Harford talks to author Deborah Stone about her book which explores counting.
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The numbers behind Squid Game
Sun 24 Oct 2021
Could you survive a round in Squid Game, and how many have watched it?
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The prize-winning economics of migration and the minimum wage
Sun 17 Oct 2021
A look at the work of this year鈥檚 winners of the most prestigious prize in economics.
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Bonus episode: the first ever More or Less
Thu 7 Oct 2021
A chat with More or Less's founding producer and presenter plus the first episode in full
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Twenty years of More or Less
Wed 6 Oct 2021
A look back at our origins, plus the usual mix of numerical nous and statistical savvy.
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Is it easy being green?
Wed 29 Sep 2021
Expensive electricity, inadequate insulation, and a tale of tumbling trees.
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Covid trends, face mask use, and the universal credit cut
Wed 22 Sep 2021
A coronavirus check-in, our daily mask use measured, and the universal credit cut.
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How many holes are there in a drinking straw?
Sat 18 Sep 2021
Tim Harford talks to Jordan Ellenberg about the pandemic, geometry and drinking straws.
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Death, Tax and Dishwashers
Wed 15 Sep 2021
Why is estimating the number of unvaccinated people so tricky? And how deadly is 2021?
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Vaccine waning, hot dogs and Afghanistan
Wed 8 Sep 2021
How worried should we be about antibodies? Plus food that shortens life.
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Covid, HGV driver shortages and protest costs
Wed 1 Sep 2021
Has Brexit caused a fall in lorry drivers? Plus policing Extinction Rebellion
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Reason, numbers and Mr Spock
Sat 28 Aug 2021
What role do numbers play in helping us think more rationally?
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The extraordinary life of Robert Moses
Sat 21 Aug 2021
The life of mathematics educator and civil rights organiser, Dr Robert Moses
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How good were the performances at the Tokyo Olympics?
Mon 16 Aug 2021
What can the data tell us about the quality of the Covid hit games?
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Jab fears explained: a base rate fallacy
Sat 7 Aug 2021
Why increasing Covid infections amongst the vaccinated isn鈥檛 necessarily bad news
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Breaking Climate Records
Sat 31 Jul 2021
The odds and probability behind record-breaking temperatures
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The Rise of Delta
Sat 24 Jul 2021
Where鈥檚 this new Variant spreading and what can be done to stop it?
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The Freedom Day Gamble
Mon 19 Jul 2021
Tim Harford and the team try to work out how long Covid cases will continue to rise.
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Are there 40 million Nigerians on Twitter?
Sat 10 Jul 2021
Recent reports have claimed that Nigeria has 40 million Twitter users 鈥� but is this true?
