More or Less: Behind the Stats Episodes Available now
The magical maths of pool testing
Could pool testing hold the key to ramping up Covid-19 testing?
Covid testing capacity, refugee numbers, and mascara
Confusing claims on lab capacity, the UK鈥檚 record on asylum, and the volume of eyelashes.
Covid cases rising, a guide to life鈥檚 risks, and racing jelly-fish
How worrying is the UK鈥檚 jump in cases? Plus balancing risks and the speed of jelly-fish.
Schools and coronavirus, test and trace, maths and reality
Evidence on Covid-19 risks in schools, data on contact tracing, and a philosophical query.
Covid plasma therapy
Claims about a Covid-19 treatment, breast cancer screening, and 18th century sex workers.
A-level algorithms, poker and buses
We unpick the A-level algoshambles and discover what poker teaches us about statistics.
Belarus鈥� contested election
Tim Harford looks at the numbers behind the widely questioned election result
Hawaiian Pizza, obesity and a second wave?
Covid-19 cases are rising in the UK - is it a sign of a second wave of the virus?
Melting Antarctic ice
If all the ice in Antarctica melted, would global sea levels rise by 70 metres?
Covid in Africa
Do we have enough data to know what鈥檚 happening on the continent?
