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WS More or Less: You have 15,000 likes!

A listener doubts her popularity on the dating app Tinder. We investigate the numbers.

• 9 mins

Teen Suicide; Brexit Business Moves; Wood-Burner Pollution

Tim Harford finds untrue a recent report that there is a 'suicidal generation' of teens.

• 28 mins

WS More or Less: From the archives: Groundhogs and Kings

Assessing the accuracy of a Groundhog; How many English people have right royal relatives?

• 18 mins

Climate Change, Victorian Diseases, Alcohol

Tim Harford on climate change, Victorian diseases, maths mistakes and alcohol consumption

• 23 mins

WS More or Less: When maths mistakes really matter

Tim Harford talks to Matt Parker on how simple maths mistakes can cause big problems.

• 9 mins

How To Make Your Art Work More Valuable

Die, sell on a sunny day, place your work a third of the way through the auction.

• 9 mins

Insectageddon

Could insects go extinct in one hundred years?

• 12 mins

The gender gap in tech

Are women really less likely than men to be hired for jobs in tech?

• 9 mins

Day light saving time and heart attacks

Does the sudden loss of an hour of sleep raise the risk of having a heart attack?

• 8 mins

Is Mansa Musa the richest person of all time?

Is the West African king, Mansa Musa, the richest person who ever lived?

• 8 mins

Chess cheats and the GOAT

What a statistical analysis of chess moves can teach us about this ancient game.

• 10 mins

Rounding up the weed killer cancer conundrum

We examine the cancer-causing potential of the weed killer glyphosate

• 8 mins

Where is Scotland鈥檚 highest village?

A battle is brewing in the Southern Scottish uplands between two rival villages.

• 8 mins

The economic impact of mega sporting events

Major sports events and the benefits to the local economy.

• 8 mins

Hottest Easter, Insects, Scottish villages

Should we be surprised Easter Monday was the hottest recorded?

• 27 mins

Bernie Sanders and the cost of having a baby

Did Bernie Sanders get the cost of giving birth right?

• 9 mins

Nurses, flatmates and cats

We look into sobering statistics about nurses and some curious claims about house-sharing

• 23 mins

Avengers - Should we reverse the snap?

Exploring the economic impact of losing half the world鈥檚 population

• 10 mins

Sex, coal, missing people and mice

Are we having less sex? And what happened to coal? (These items are unrelated.)

• 27 mins

Sex Every Seven Seconds

We revisit some classic topics from past years

• 15 mins

Heart deaths, Organised crime and Gender data gaps

Are more people dying from coronary disease? Plus how we need more economic data on women

• 27 mins

Making music out of Money

A musical interpretation of a chart depicting the yield-curve of American bonds.

• 9 mins

Eurovision and fact-checking Naomi Wolf

The stats behind making a successful song, plus misunderstanding Victorian court records.

• 24 mins

WS More or Less: Florence Nightingale 鈥� recognising the nurse statistician

How collecting data about the dead led the famous nurse to promote better sanitation.

• 10 mins

Hay Festival Special

What does it mean to say that the UK is the fifth largest economy in the world?

• 27 mins

WS More or Less: Volcanoes versus humans

Does Mount Etna produce more carbon emissions than humans? We check the numbers.

• 9 mins

Are married women flipping miserable?

Measuring happiness, university access in Scotland, plus will one in two get cancer?

• 23 mins

WS More or Less: The things we fail to see

The hidden influences that a make a big difference to the way the world works.

• 9 mins

WS More or Less: Dealing with the Numbers of Cancer

How one woman used statistics to help cope with cancer.

• 9 mins

Questioning the Chernobyl disaster death count

We fact check the recent TV drama Chernobyl

• 15 mins