More or Less Podcast
Tim Harford explains - and sometimes debunks - the numbers and statistics used in political debate, the news and everyday life.
Episodes to download
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Is intermittent fasting going to kill you?
Sat 25 May 2024
Investigating research which suggested time restricted eating increased the risk of death.
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MP misconduct, NHS waiting lists and gold (gold)
Wed 22 May 2024
Will it take 685 years to clear the NHS waiting list? Are 10% of MPs under investigation?
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Are falling marriage rates causing happiness to fall in the US?
Sat 18 May 2024
Investigating the relationship between matrimony and melancholy.
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Are falling marriage rates causing happiness to fall in the US?
Sat 18 May 2024
Investigating the relationship between matrimony and melancholy.
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Is reading for pleasure the single biggest factor in how well a child does in life?
Sat 11 May 2024
What research says about the connection between reading and success in later life.
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Is reading for pleasure the single biggest factor in how well a child does in life?
Sat 11 May 2024
What research says about the connection between reading and success in later life.
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Do one in five young Americans think the holocaust is a myth?
Sat 4 May 2024
How problems with opt-in polling can lead to controversial headlines
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Do one in five young Americans think the holocaust is a myth?
Sat 4 May 2024
How problems with opt-in polling can lead to controversial headlines
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Has Milei fixed Argentina’s inflation problem?
Sat 27 Apr 2024
What falling inflation means for Milei’s austerity plan and economic “shock” measures
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Has Milei fixed Argentina’s inflation problem?
Fri 26 Apr 2024
What falling inflation means for Milei’s austerity plan and economic “shock” measures
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Is misinformation being spread about a review of trans youth medicine?
Sat 20 Apr 2024
Investigating claims that the Cass Review ignored 98% of valuable evidence
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98%: Is misinformation being spread about a review of trans youth medicine?
Sat 20 Apr 2024
Investigating claims that the Cass Review ignored valuable evidence
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Is loneliness as bad for you as smoking?
Sat 6 Apr 2024
The connection between being alone and an early death
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Is loneliness as bad for you as smoking?
Sat 6 Apr 2024
The connection between being alone and an early death
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Remembering Daniel Kahneman
Sat 30 Mar 2024
Tim Harford on the great social scientist, who has died at the age of 90
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Remembering Daniel Kahneman
Sat 30 Mar 2024
Tim Harford on the great social scientist, who has died at the age of 90
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Bonus episode: Daniel Kahneman on Thinking, Fast and Slow
Thu 28 Mar 2024
In an episode of More or Less from 2012, Daniel Kahneman explains his big ideas.
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What's happening to Arctic ice?
Mon 25 Mar 2024
Arctic ice has been in long decline. Do recent fluctuations change the story?
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What’s happening to Arctic ice?
Sat 23 Mar 2024
Arctic ice has been in long decline. Do recent fluctuations change the story?
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Does the Russian government really spend 40% of its budget on the military?
Sat 16 Mar 2024
We investigate how much the Russian state is spending on the war in Ukraine
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Does the Russian government really spend 40% of its budget on the military?
Sat 16 Mar 2024
We investigate how much the Russian state is spending on the war in Ukraine.
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Is public speaking really our biggest fear?
Sat 9 Mar 2024
Tim Harford investigates the claim that public speaking is people’s number one fear.
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Is public speaking really our biggest fear?
Sat 9 Mar 2024
Tim Harford investigates the claim that public speaking is people’s number one fear.
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Ultramarathons: Are women faster than men?
Sat 2 Mar 2024
Is it really true that in extremely long races, women run faster than men?
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Ultramarathons: Are women faster than men?
Sat 2 Mar 2024
Is it really true that in extremely long races, women run faster than men?
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School spending, excess deaths and billions of animals at Heathrow
Wed 28 Feb 2024
Is school funding at record levels? Did 6.5bn creatures come to the UK by plane last year?
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NBA basketball: Is height more important than skill?
Sat 24 Feb 2024
How much does a man’s height affect his chances of becoming an NBA basketball player?
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NBA basketball: Is height more important than skill?
Sat 24 Feb 2024
How much does a man’s height affect his chances of becoming an NBA basketball player?
Unlock the history and truth behind the data with The OU
Explore how numbers shape, and sometimes mislead us, with The Open University.
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BBC Ideas discovers three easy ways to help make sense of statistics.
