More or Less: Behind the Stats Episodes Available now
Twenty years of More or Less
A look back at our origins, plus the usual mix of numerical nous and statistical savvy.
The Gender Pay Gap
Can Machiavelli help women get a better deal in the workplace?
Is it easy being green?
Expensive electricity, inadequate insulation, and a tale of tumbling trees.
Covid trends, face mask use, and the universal credit cut
A coronavirus check-in, our daily mask use measured, and the universal credit cut.
How many holes are there in a drinking straw?
Tim Harford talks to Jordan Ellenberg about the pandemic, geometry and drinking straws.
Death, Tax and Dishwashers
Why is estimating the number of unvaccinated people so tricky? And how deadly is 2021?
Vaccine waning, hot dogs and Afghanistan
How worried should we be about antibodies? Plus food that shortens life.
The Bill for Afghanistan
Did the war in Afghanistan cost the US $2 trillion?
Covid, HGV driver shortages and protest costs
Has Brexit caused a fall in lorry drivers? Plus policing Extinction Rebellion
Reason, numbers and Mr Spock
What role do numbers play in helping us think more rationally?
