More or Less Podcast
Tim Harford explains - and sometimes debunks - the numbers and statistics used in political debate, the news and everyday life.
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Is Trump right about violent crime in Venezuela and the US?
Sat 26 Oct 2024
Donald Trump says Venezuela is becoming safer than the US. Is he right?
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Is Trump right about violent crime in Venezuela and the US?
Sat 26 Oct 2024
Donald Trump says Venezuela is becoming safer than the US. Is he right?
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Do US crime statistics miss out the most violent cities?
Wed 23 Oct 2024
Plus: MP capital gains claims and grizzly bear berry habits
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Do US crime statistics miss out the most violent cities?
Wed 23 Oct 2024
Plus: MP capital gains claims and grizzly bear berry habits.
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Nobel Prize: Why are some countries so much richer than others?
Sat 19 Oct 2024
Why Acemoglu, Johnson and Robinson won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics
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Nobel prize: Why are some countries so much richer than others?
Sat 19 Oct 2024
Why Acemoglu, Johnson and Robinson won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics
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When are numbers like a horse at a gymkhana?
Wed 16 Oct 2024
Plus: the taxes of 60 very rich people, water bill spreadsheets, and is 0 a small number?
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Uncertainty, probability and double yoked eggs
Sat 12 Oct 2024
Professor Sir David Spiegelhalter on his new book, The Art of Uncertainty
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Uncertainty, probability and double yoked eggs
Sat 12 Oct 2024
Professor Sir David Spiegelhalter on his new book, The Art of Uncertainty
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Should the government target persnuffle?
Wed 9 Oct 2024
Plus, childhood obesity, birds hitting windows and Sir David Spiegelhalter’s origin story.
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Are 672 billion pounds of corn eaten in the US every year?
Sat 5 Oct 2024
A lot of corn is eaten in the United States, but is it really 2.5kg per person per day?
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Are 672 billion pounds of corn eaten in the US every year?
Sat 5 Oct 2024
A lot of corn is eaten in the United States, but is it really 2.5kg per person per day?
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How do you breed seventeen octillion rats?
Wed 2 Oct 2024
Plus, GPs working less, the UK working less, and Wetherspoons wanting to pay less tax.
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The puzzles you’re meant to get wrong
Sat 28 Sep 2024
Alex Bellos sets Tim Harford logical conundrums designed to deceive
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The puzzles you’re meant to get wrong
Sat 28 Sep 2024
Alex Bellos sets Tim Harford logical conundrums designed to deceive
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Could the winter fuel cut cost more than it saves?
Wed 25 Sep 2024
Plus, ONS transgender stats, early-onset cancer, and puzzles you’re meant to get wrong
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Do 85% of the world’s population practice a religion?
Sat 21 Sep 2024
Counting religions across the globe – is the world getting more religious or less?
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Do 85% of the world’s population practice a religion?
Sat 21 Sep 2024
Counting religions across the globe – is the world getting more religious or less?
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How do you count millionaires?
Wed 18 Sep 2024
Plus, asylum seeker costs, private school bets and Baumol's cost disease
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Nate Silver: Do risk-takers run the world?
Sat 14 Sep 2024
Poker player and polling analyst Nate Silver on his new book
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Nate Silver: Do risk-takers run the world?
Sat 14 Sep 2024
Poker player and polling analyst Nate Silver on his new book
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How long does it take to turn around an oil tanker?
Wed 11 Sep 2024
Plus, Migrants vs Pensioners and Ed Miliband’s energy auction claim
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Who pays when trade wars heat up?
Sat 7 Sep 2024
We look at Donald Trump’s claim that tariffs are a tax on other countries
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Who pays when trade wars heat up?
Sat 7 Sep 2024
We look at Donald Trump’s claim that tariffs are a tax on other countries
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Exclusions, black holes and dividing by zero
Wed 4 Sep 2024
Plus special educational needs in Wales and Ghanian nurses in the UK
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Where have Cuba’s people gone?
Sat 31 Aug 2024
We investigate the collapse in the Caribbean island’s population.
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Where have Cuba’s people gone?
Sat 31 Aug 2024
We investigate the collapse in the Caribbean island’s population
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Do we eat a credit card's worth of microplastic each week?
Sat 24 Aug 2024
We look at whether humans really ingest five grams of microplastic on a weekly basis
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Do we eat a credit card's worth of microplastic each week?
Sat 24 Aug 2024
We look at whether humans really ingest five grams of microplastic on a weekly basis
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Are companies making more money from their customers?
Sat 17 Aug 2024
We investigate claims mark-ups are larger than ever
Unlock the history and truth behind the data with The OU
Explore how numbers shape, and sometimes mislead us, with The Open University.
When can you trust statistics?
BBC Ideas discovers three easy ways to help make sense of statistics.
