More or Less: Behind the Stats

A podcast by BBC Radio 4 - Saturdays

Saturdays

600 Episodes

  1. Energy prices, excess deaths and the race to count to 200

    Published: 8/31/2022
  2. Kenya’s Election Rounding Error

    Published: 8/27/2022
  3. The numbers behind “natural” birth control

    Published: 8/20/2022
  4. Is opinion polling broken?

    Published: 8/13/2022
  5. Debunking the Liverpool FC Conspiracy Theory

    Published: 8/6/2022
  6. How our world measures up

    Published: 7/30/2022
  7. Does the World Athletics Championships have a false start problem?

    Published: 7/23/2022
  8. Is Uganda about to become a middle income country?

    Published: 7/16/2022
  9. Does it take 10,000 litres of water to make a pair of jeans?

    Published: 7/9/2022
  10. How many American women will have an abortion in their lifetime?

    Published: 7/2/2022
  11. Covid climb, childcare costs and why can’t the French count properly?

    Published: 6/29/2022
  12. Ed Sheeran and the mathematics of musical coincidences

    Published: 6/25/2022
  13. Rail strikes, tyre pollution and sex statistics

    Published: 6/22/2022
  14. How often do people have sex?

    Published: 6/18/2022
  15. Maternity litigation, stars, bees and windowless planes

    Published: 6/15/2022
  16. Hannah Fry: Understanding the numbers of cancer

    Published: 6/11/2022
  17. Employment puzzle, pyramids and triplets

    Published: 6/8/2022
  18. Are girls starting puberty earlier?

    Published: 6/4/2022
  19. Jubilee costs, fuel poverty and imperial measures

    Published: 6/1/2022
  20. Noisy Decisions

    Published: 5/28/2022

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Tim Harford and the More or Less team try to make sense of the statistics which surround us. From BBC Radio 4