More or Less: Behind the Stats

600 Episodes

1. When do food shortages become a famine?

   Published: 11/26/2022
2. A $220 billion World Cup?

   Published: 11/19/2022
3. Bonus Episode: Understand the Economy

   Published: 11/14/2022
4. Improving the numbers in the news

   Published: 11/12/2022
5. Lula’s “zero deforestation” plan for the Amazon

   Published: 11/5/2022
6. Can China’s GDP data be trusted?

   Published: 10/29/2022
7. Do half of new books really sell fewer than twelve copies?

   Published: 10/22/2022
8. Ben Bernanke and the magic of banking

   Published: 10/15/2022
9. Catching Chess Cheats with Data

   Published: 10/8/2022
10. Teens and antidepressants, stamp duty savings and earthquake probabilities

    Published: 10/7/2022
11. Teens and antidepressants, stamp duty savings and earthquake probabilities

    Published: 10/5/2022
12. NASA’s asteroid collision: how many asteroids are really out there?

    Published: 10/1/2022
13. Falling pound, the Queen’s funeral and is 0.5 on the Richter scale a big number?

    Published: 9/28/2022
14. Ukraine’s progress in numbers

    Published: 9/24/2022
15. Ukraine offensive, weak pound & how much do women really exercise

    Published: 9/22/2022
16. How bad is fashion for the environment?

    Published: 9/17/2022
17. Energy crisis plan, imperial measures survey, gardens v national parks

    Published: 9/14/2022
18. Is a third of Pakistan really under water?

    Published: 9/10/2022
19. Pakistan flooding, UK power prices and Boris’s broadband claim

    Published: 9/7/2022
20. Can we use maths to beat the robots?

    Published: 9/3/2022