More or Less: Behind the Stats Episodes Episode guide
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Falling pound, the Queen’s funeral and is 0.5 on the Richter scale a big number?
How worried should we be about the steep falls in the pound?
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Faith and Charity?
"Religion Makes People More Generous"- according to The Daily Telegraph's of a new Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ...
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Factchecking Trump on Trade
The US President regularly talks about America's trade deficit - do his figures stack up?
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Factchecking America
US Presidential Election factchecked. Is Mitt Romney right to say that 47% of pay no...
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Fact-checking US gun crime statistics
Tim Harford investigates gun crime statistics in the US. Plus, why death is not always...
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Fact-checking Boris Johnson
Giant bombs, a war hero and the foreign secretary's stats.
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Explaining maths without Numbers
Tim Harford speaks to mathematician Milo Beckman about the beauty of maths.
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Exclusions, black holes and dividing by zero
Plus special educational needs in Wales and Ghanian nurses in the UK
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Exam grades, Chernobyl and Ethiopian trees
Was your A Level grade correct? Plus were 350m trees planted in one day in Ethiopia?
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Eurovision and fact-checking Naomi Wolf
The stats behind making a successful song, plus misunderstanding Victorian court records.
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Eurostats - True or False?
Are there really more Porsche Cayenne owners in Greece than taxpayers earning over Can...
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EU Migration
What will happen to migration if the UK leaves the EU?
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Ethnic minority deaths, climate change and lockdown
Are doctors from ethnic minority backgrounds disproportionately affected by Covid-19?
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Esther Duflo and women in economics
Discussing Esther Duflo, Abhijit Banerjee and Michael Kremer’s economics Nobel Prize.
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Energy prices, excess deaths and the race to count to 200
Is there an easy way to cut soaring energy bills?
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Energy crisis plan, imperial measures survey, gardens v national parks
How much will the UK government’s plan to limit energy price rises end up costing?
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Employment puzzle, pyramids and triplets
The UK has a low unemployment rate but lots of people not working – how come?
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Electric vehicles, 600 million bottles and does oral sex cause cancer?
Is the weight of electric vehicles a risk to infrastructure?
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Electric cars, school-ready and feedback
Will we need more power stations? Plus, are children in Manchester ready for school?
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Election Special: Tax, borders and climate
Who pays income tax, cutting migration and where in the UK is cold?
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Election Special 1/2
50,000 nurses? 40 hospitals? Corporate tax rises? Tim Harford looks at Election pledges.
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Election Special (2/2)
Labour's spending plans, Conservatives claims on homelessness, the SNP's education record
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Election endings, tennis and meeting men in finance
Exit polls, election claims, and a 54% chance of winning a point in tennis
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Election claims and erection claims
What did Liz Truss do to mortgage rates? Do erections use a litre of blood?
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Election and Adultery Special
Tim Harford and a panel of experts discuss pre-election polls and election fact checking.
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Egypt: Biggest protest in history?
It’s claimed that Egyptians have taken part in the biggest uprising the world has...
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Edith Abbott and crime statistics
Social worker and economist Edith Abbott and her contribution to crime statistics.
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Ed Sheeran and the mathematics of musical coincidences
Ed Sheeran thinks that musical coincidences will always happen… but do the numbers agree?
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Economics of Overbooking
Why airlines bet that not everybody will turn up for a flight.
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E-cigarettes: Can They Help People Quit?
Do e-cigarettes harm your chances of quitting smoking? Tim Harford looks at the evidence.