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26/10/2024 GMT
Tim Harford explains the numbers and statistics in the news and in life.
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19/10/2024 GMT
Tim Harford explains the numbers and statistics in the news and in life.
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12/10/2024 GMT
Tim Harford explains the numbers and statistics in the news and in life.
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Are 672 billion pounds of corn eaten in the US every year?
A lot of corn is eaten in the United States, but is it really 2.5kg per person per day?
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The puzzles youβre meant to get wrong
Alex Bellos sets Tim Harford logical conundrums designed to deceive
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Do 85% of the worldβs population practice a religion?
Counting religions across the globe β is the world getting more religious or less?
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Nate Silver: Do risk-takers run the world?
Poker player and polling analyst Nate Silver on his new book
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Who pays when trade wars heat up?
We look at Donald Trumpβs claim that tariffs are a tax on other countries
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Where have Cubaβs people gone?
We investigate the collapse in the Caribbean islandβs population.
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Do we eat a credit card's worth of microplastic each week?
We look at whether humans really ingest five grams of microplastic on a weekly basis
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Are companies making more money from their customers?
We investigate claims mark-ups are larger than ever
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Is planet Earth getting greener?
Jordan Peterson says Earth has greened by 20% in 20 years. Is he right?
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Does a language die every two weeks?
Languages are disappearing. We investigate claims of how often this happens
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Are women 14 times more likely to die in natural disasters?
We unpick the idea that women outnumber men by 14 to 1 as casualties of natural disasters
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Is increasing turbulence making flying more dangerous?
Exploring the link between bumpy flights and climate change.
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Federerβs 54%: Tennis stats explained
How Federer became the best in the world winning just over half the points he played
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The magic of trigonometry
Tim Harford interviews Matt Parker on his latest book βLove Triangleβ
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How a tick box doubled the US maternal mortality rates.
We investigate changes to the way the US gathers their maternal mortality statistics
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Do βpig butcheringβ cyber scams make as much as half Cambodiaβs GDP?
We investigate the money made by an international cybercrime operations.
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Shakespeareβs maths
Author Rob Eastaway on the numbers in Shakespeareβs writing
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Why medical error is not the third leading cause of death in the US
Investigating how many deaths are caused by mistakes by doctors and nurses
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Data for India
Changing India in numbers: what type of country will the next administration lead?
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Is intermittent fasting going to kill you?
Investigating research which suggested time restricted eating increased the risk of death
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Are falling marriage rates causing happiness to fall in the US?
Investigating the relationship between matrimony and melancholy.
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Is reading for pleasure the single biggest factor in how well a child does in life?
What research says about the connection between reading and success in later life.
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Do one in five young Americans think the holocaust is a myth?
How problems with opt-in polling can lead to controversial headlines
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Has Milei fixed Argentinaβs inflation problem?
What falling inflation means for Mileiβs austerity plan and economic βshockβ measures
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Is misinformation being spread about a review of trans youth medicine?
Investigating claims that the Cass Review ignored 98% of valuable evidence
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Tackling The Three-Body Problem
Is the physics in Netflix's new show accurate?
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Is loneliness as bad for you as smoking?
The connection between being alone and an early death