More or Less: Behind the Stats Episodes Available now
How to better understand and explain numbers
Professor Oliver Johnson discusses the use of statistics in the pandemic and in life.
A groundbreaking new proof for Pythagoras鈥� Theorem?
Two high school students say they鈥檝e discovered a new trigonometric proof for the theorem
Covid vaccines and false claims about miscarriage
We debunk viral claims that incorrectly link covid-19 vaccines with a risk of miscarriage
Silicon Valley Bank: a very modern bank run
How do bank runs happen?
Do fungi kill three times as many people as malaria?
We investigate the claim that fungal infections are a much bigger killer than malaria.
Does your jewellery contain stolen Brink鈥檚-Mat gold?
We ask what happened to the 3 tonnes of pure gold after the infamous robbery of 1983
UK vs European energy prices, falling excess deaths and is 5 grams of cocaine a lot?
We debunk a claim that the UK has by far the highest energy prices in Europe
Do 29,000 coffee pods really go to landfill every minute?
We explore the environmental consequences of our thirst for coffee
Reoffending rates, Welsh taxes and the menopause
Tim Harford and team fact check a government claim about falling reoffending rates
Florence Nightingale and how she visualised data
Tim Harford discusses the power of the nurse statistician鈥檚 groundbreaking diagrams
