More or Less: Behind the Stats Podcast
Tim Harford and the More or Less team try to make sense of the statistics which surround us. From 麻豆约拍 Radio 4
Episodes to download
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How many Americans live 鈥榩aycheck to paycheck鈥�?
Saturday
How many Americans live 鈥榩aycheck to paycheck鈥�?
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Did one in 10 Greeks die in World War Two?
Sat 7 Dec 2024
We investigate if 10 percent of the Greek population died during the second world war
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Can Elon Musk save the US Government $2 trillion?
Sat 30 Nov 2024
We look at whether DOGE can successfully balance the US budget.
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Do fossil fuels get $7 trillion in subsidies?
Sat 23 Nov 2024
We investigate a huge estimate for how much governments pay to support coal, gas and oil
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Did 20 million votes really go missing in the US election?
Sat 16 Nov 2024
We investigate a viral graph that suggests turnout was drastically lower than in 2020
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Do we have enough clothes for the next six generations?
Sat 9 Nov 2024
We delve into the stats on the scale of the fashion industry
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What can economics learn from sport?
Sat 2 Nov 2024
From loss aversion to game theory, how sports provide evidence for economic theories
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Are older drivers more dangerous?
Wed 30 Oct 2024
Plus, winter fuel deaths, prison sentence maths and leaves on railway tracks.
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Is Trump right about violent crime in Venezuela and the US?
Sat 26 Oct 2024
Donald Trump says Venezuela is becoming safer than the US. Is he right?
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Do US crime statistics miss out the most violent cities?
Wed 23 Oct 2024
Plus: MP capital gains claims and grizzly bear berry habits
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Nobel prize: Why are some countries so much richer than others?
Sat 19 Oct 2024
Why Acemoglu, Johnson and Robinson won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics
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When are numbers like a horse at a gymkhana?
Wed 16 Oct 2024
Plus: the taxes of 60 very rich people, water bill spreadsheets, and is 0 a small number?
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Uncertainty, probability and double yoked eggs
Sat 12 Oct 2024
Professor Sir David Spiegelhalter on his new book, The Art of Uncertainty
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Should the government target persnuffle?
Wed 9 Oct 2024
Plus, childhood obesity, birds hitting windows and Sir David Spiegelhalter鈥檚 origin story.
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Are 672 billion pounds of corn eaten in the US every year?
Sat 5 Oct 2024
A lot of corn is eaten in the United States, but is it really 2.5kg per person per day?
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How do you breed seventeen octillion rats?
Wed 2 Oct 2024
Plus, GPs working less, the UK working less, and Wetherspoons wanting to pay less tax.
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The puzzles you鈥檙e meant to get wrong
Sat 28 Sep 2024
Alex Bellos sets Tim Harford logical conundrums designed to deceive
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Could the winter fuel cut cost more than it saves?
Wed 25 Sep 2024
Plus, ONS transgender stats, early-onset cancer, and puzzles you鈥檙e meant to get wrong
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Do 85% of the world鈥檚 population practice a religion?
Sat 21 Sep 2024
Counting religions across the globe 鈥� is the world getting more religious or less?
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How do you count millionaires?
Wed 18 Sep 2024
Plus, asylum seeker costs, private school bets and Baumol's cost disease
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Nate Silver: Do risk-takers run the world?
Sat 14 Sep 2024
Poker player and polling analyst Nate Silver on his new book
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How long does it take to turn around an oil tanker?
Wed 11 Sep 2024
Plus, Migrants vs Pensioners and Ed Miliband鈥檚 energy auction claim
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Who pays when trade wars heat up?
Sat 7 Sep 2024
We look at Donald Trump鈥檚 claim that tariffs are a tax on other countries
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Exclusions, black holes and dividing by zero
Wed 4 Sep 2024
Plus special educational needs in Wales and Ghanian nurses in the UK
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Where have Cuba鈥檚 people gone?
Sat 31 Aug 2024
We investigate the collapse in the Caribbean island鈥檚 population
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Do we eat a credit card's worth of microplastic each week?
Sat 24 Aug 2024
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?
Sat 17 Aug 2024
We investigate claims mark-ups are larger than ever
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Is planet Earth getting greener?
Sat 10 Aug 2024
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?
Sat 3 Aug 2024
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?
Sat 27 Jul 2024
We unpick the idea that women outnumber men by 14 to 1 as casualties of natural disasters
