More or Less: Behind the Stats
A podcast by BBC Radio 4 - Saturdays
600 Episodes
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Energy prices, excess deaths and the race to count to 200
Published: 8/31/2022 -
Kenya’s Election Rounding Error
Published: 8/27/2022 -
The numbers behind “natural” birth control
Published: 8/20/2022 -
Is opinion polling broken?
Published: 8/13/2022 -
Debunking the Liverpool FC Conspiracy Theory
Published: 8/6/2022 -
How our world measures up
Published: 7/30/2022 -
Does the World Athletics Championships have a false start problem?
Published: 7/23/2022 -
Is Uganda about to become a middle income country?
Published: 7/16/2022 -
Does it take 10,000 litres of water to make a pair of jeans?
Published: 7/9/2022 -
How many American women will have an abortion in their lifetime?
Published: 7/2/2022 -
Covid climb, childcare costs and why can’t the French count properly?
Published: 6/29/2022 -
Ed Sheeran and the mathematics of musical coincidences
Published: 6/25/2022 -
Rail strikes, tyre pollution and sex statistics
Published: 6/22/2022 -
How often do people have sex?
Published: 6/18/2022 -
Maternity litigation, stars, bees and windowless planes
Published: 6/15/2022 -
Hannah Fry: Understanding the numbers of cancer
Published: 6/11/2022 -
Employment puzzle, pyramids and triplets
Published: 6/8/2022 -
Are girls starting puberty earlier?
Published: 6/4/2022 -
Jubilee costs, fuel poverty and imperial measures
Published: 6/1/2022 -
Noisy Decisions
Published: 5/28/2022
Tim Harford and the More or Less team try to make sense of the statistics which surround us. From BBC Radio 4