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C-sections and sharks
Hospital births in China and whether it’s true 50% are delivered by caesarean section
How many women in China give birth in hospitals, and whether it was true that 50% of births there are delivered by caesarean section. Oh, and we also mention guts and bacteria…
Sharks kill 12 humans a year but humans kill 11,417 sharks an hour. That’s the statistic used in a Facebook meme that’s doing the rounds. Is it true?
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More or Less: Behind the Stats
Tim Harford investigates numbers in the news: are they always reliable?
