More or Less: Behind the Stats Episodes Episode guide
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Chinaβs missing numbers
How the Chinese state make inconvenient statistics disappear
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China Stock Market Crash
The Chinese markets may have crashed but was it really Black Monday? with Tim Harford
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Child Poverty, School Inequality and a Second Wave
As lockdown eases, why hasn't there been a spike in infections?
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Chess cheats and the GOAT
What a statistical analysis of chess moves can teach us about this ancient game.
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Chavez's cancer claims
President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela thinks the US may have developed a secret to give...
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Celebrity deaths
Have more famous people died this year than usual?
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Catching Chess Cheats with Data
A cheating scandal is rocking the world of chess - and data is at its heart
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Carbs, Sugar and the Truth
Does a baked potato contain the equivalent of 19 cubes of sugar?
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Cancer screening, the Windrush Generation, Audiograms
Calculating the benefits and risks of breast screening. Plus, patchy citizenship data.
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Can you fool your brain?
Looking at the power of expectations
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Can we use maths to beat the robots?
Why improving how we teach and think about maths could help us keep an edge over machines
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Can maths prove the existence of aliens?
We look a famous equation which tries to explain whether life exists in outer space
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Can chocolate be better than salad?
We investigate a nutritional conundrum β can chocolate ever be better for you than salad?
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Can Chinaβs GDP data be trusted?
Are Chinaβs most recent figures for economic growth wrong?
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Can China's data on covid deaths be trusted?
Is China under-reporting data on Covid related deaths?
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Can big data save lives?
With an avalanche of 2. 5 quintillion bytes of data generated daily, could this be used...
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Cameronβs 1000 jobs
Fact-checking the Conservatives' employment claims; the price of milk; unhappy how to...
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Calling the shots at Wimbledon
Using statistics to prove or disprove the wisdom of tennis.
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C-sections and sharks
Hospital births in China and whether itβs true 50% are delivered by caesarean section
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British Law - Made in Brussels?
How much British law is made in Brussels - 75% as UKIP say, or 7% as Nick Clegg says?...
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Britain's 80,000 homeless children
About 80,000 children will wake up homeless on Christmas Day, according to the charity...
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Brexit numbers
Do the Treasury's Brexit numbers add up?
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Brexit exports, cladding and are 1 in 5 disabled?
Are exports to the EU down since Brexit? Plus removing flammable building cladding.
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Brexit and trade, pensioner millionaires and Hannah Fry on loyalty cards and cancer
We examine a claim that the UKβs trade with the EU has increased since Brexit
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Breaking Climate Records
The odds and probability behind record-breaking temperatures
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Brain Food and Bacteria
There's not an obvious link between chocolate and Nobel prizes, but this did not stop...
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Brain Culture Part 3
In a change to our usual format, we are podcasting Matthew Taylor's "Brain Culture"...
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Brain Culture Part 2
In a change to the usual format, we are podcasting Matthew Taylor's "Brain Culture"...
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Brain Culture Part 1
In a change to the usual format, we are podcasting Matthew Taylorβs series βBrain...
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Bonus Podcast: Professor John Horton Conway
Mathematician John Conway died in April as a result of Covid-19.