More or Less: Behind the Stats Episodes Available now
Inviting Covid for Dinner
If you go to a gathering of 25 people, what are the chances one of you has coronavirus?
Vaccine numbers
How much protection will a new Covid 19 vaccine give?
How deadly is Covid 19?
Why there isn鈥檛 one single death rate.
Asymptomatic Covid19 Cases
How many Covid19 cases are truly asymptomatic?
US election: facts or fiction
Tim Harford hears about the sheer volume of false claims made in the campaign.
Auction Theory - Paul Milgrom and Robert Wilson
This year鈥檚 Nobel memorial prize winners for economics and their work on auction theory.
A short history of probability
Gamblers, millionaires and annuities
Spreadsheet snafu, 鈥楲ong Covid鈥� quantified, and the birth of probability
Missing coronavirus case data, long-term symptoms, and a big mathematical moment.
鈥淩ecord鈥� Covid cases, Trump on the death count, and ant pheromones
Case counts in perspective, a suspect stat from the US, and life lessons from insects.
Covid curve queried, false positives, and the Queen鈥檚 head
How fast are coronavirus cases doubling? Plus testing confusion and a royal face-off.
