More or Less: Behind the Stats
A podcast by BBC Radio 4 - Saturdays
600 Episodes
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Do 29,000 coffee pods really go to landfill every minute?
Published: 2/25/2023 -
Reoffending rates, Welsh taxes and the menopause
Published: 2/22/2023 -
Florence Nightingale and how she visualised data
Published: 2/18/2023 -
Nurses' pay, ambulance times and forgotten female economists
Published: 2/15/2023 -
Spreadsheet disasters
Published: 2/11/2023 -
The IMF and the UK economy, NHS staff shortages and British vs English
Published: 2/8/2023 -
Hannah Fry on using shopping data to detect ovarian cancer
Published: 2/4/2023 -
Brexit and trade, pensioner millionaires and Hannah Fry on loyalty cards and cancer
Published: 2/1/2023 -
Are wild mammals only 4% of the mammal population?
Published: 1/28/2023 -
Coffee with the Chancellor, inflation measures, GP numbers and toilet paper
Published: 1/25/2023 -
Does toilet paper cause 15% of global deforestation?
Published: 1/21/2023 -
Ambulance response times, teacher pay and Irish pubs
Published: 1/18/2023 -
How we shook the world of very large numbers
Published: 1/14/2023 -
A&E delays and deaths, religious identity in N Ireland and naming the monster numbers
Published: 1/11/2023 -
Can China's data on covid deaths be trusted?
Published: 1/7/2023 -
Irish pubs - a global numbers game
Published: 12/31/2022 -
Numbers of the Year 2022
Published: 12/24/2022 -
Qatar World Cup: the pressure of penalties
Published: 12/17/2022 -
Why are data so important in determining how we live?
Published: 12/10/2022 -
The World Cup: how many migrant workers have died?
Published: 12/3/2022
Tim Harford and the More or Less team try to make sense of the statistics which surround us. From BBC Radio 4