More or Less: Behind the Stats Episodes Episode guide
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WS More or Less: Sleeping: the 8-hour myth
Could having a lie-in lead to an early death?
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WS More or Less: Sir Roger Bannister
Did Sir Roger Bannister make the ‘impossible’ possible?
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WS More or Less: Simpson’s Paradox
We explore how statistics can support two seemingly contradictory results.
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WS More or Less: Should we really be drinking eight glasses of water a day?
How much water do we need and how much is too much?
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WS More or Less: Sexist Data Crisis
Are we collecting enough data about women?
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WS More or Less: Sex and Heart Attacks
Are women more likely to die from a heart attack than men?
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WS More or Less: Samba, strings and the story of HIV
Can medical statistics be transformed into a jazzy night out?
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WS More or Less: Refugee Camp Statistics
Is it true that the average stay in a refugee camp is 17 years?
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WS More or Less: Real Lives Behind the Numbers
How individuals manage their money - the personal stories behind economic data.
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WS More or Less: Puerto Rico - statistics versus politics
Why some fear the statistics authority is about to lose its independence
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WS More or Less: Predicting Olympic Medals
What makes a country successful at winning gold, silver and bronze?
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WS More or Less: Peaty v. Bolt: Which is the greatest world record?
Using statistics to compare world records in athletics and swimming.
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WS More or Less: Paul Romer and William Nordhaus’ Big Ideas
The economists tackling climate change and growth.
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WS More or Less: Odd Socks and Algorithms
How can the techniques of computer science help us in everyday life?
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WS More or Less: Numbers of the Year Part 2
Helena Merriman with numbers about water shortage, plastic recycling and American jobs.
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WS More or Less: Numbers of the Year Part 2
Helena Merriman with numbers about water shortage, plastic recycling and American jobs.
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WS More or Less: Numbers of the Year Part 1
The numbers that made 2018.
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WS More or Less: Novelists in numbers
Counting the favourite words of well-known authors: Stephen King, Hemingway and others
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WS More or Less: Most Expensive Building
How much to build The Great Pyramid, a nuclear power station, or an airport?
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WS More or Less: More Horses than Tanks?
Is the UK the only country with more horses than tanks in its army?
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WS More or Less: Mission Impossible - Quantifiying Santa
What to look out for on Christmas Eve.
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WS More or Less: Menstrual Syncing
Do women’s periods start to synchronise if they spend time together?
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WS More or Less: Liberia’s Rape Statistic Debunked
Is the claim that three out of four women were raped during Liberia's civil war true?
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WS More or Less: Leicester City football fluke?
The statistics behind the English Premier League’s surprise winners
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WS More or Less: Kilobyte to Brontobyte
Naming the monster numbers - how the names of digital storage files evolved.
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WS More or Less: Just how rare is a hole-in-one?
Why it isn’t as simple to work out as you think.
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WS More or Less: Just how lucky are regular lottery winners?
Are some people just very lucky? The maths suggest that is unlikely.
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WS More or Less: Japan’s 99% Conviction Rate
Quantifying justice in Japan with Tim Harford.
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WS More or Less: James Comey - Basketball Superstar?
Does being very tall improve your chances of becoming a professional basketball player?
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WS More or Less: Is Suicide Seasonal?
Tim Harford asks which times of the year are riskiest for suicide.