More or Less Episodes Episode guide
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WSMoreOrLess: Fact checking The Big Short
Is it true that “every one percent unemployment goes up, 40,000 people die"?
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WSMoreOrLess: Do e-cigarettes really harm your chances of quitting smoking?
Should research described as "misleading" and "not scientific" have been published?
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WSMoreOrLess: Do e-cigarettes really harm your chances of quitting smoking?
Should research described as "misleading" and "not scientific" have been published?
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WSMoreOrLess: Counting Foreign Fighters
How many foreigners have joined militants in Iraq and Syria, and where do they come from?
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WSMoreOrLess: Can we trust food surveys?
The pitfalls of nutrition science - how do really know what people are eating?
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WSMoreOrLess: Antibiotics and the problem of the broken market
The world needs new antibiotics so how do we entice big pharma back in to the market?
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WS: More or Less - How well do you understand your world?
Tim Harford talks to Bobby Duffy about why we are often wrong about a lot of basic facts
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WS: More or Less - Automated fact-checking
Computer programmes are being developed to combat fake news.
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WS MoreOrLess:100 Year Floods?
Do so-called ‘100 year floods’ only happen once a century?
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WS MoreOrLess: Zimbabwe's Economy
Zimbabwe’s budget provided a fascinating insight into the country’s economy last week.
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WS MoreOrLess: Xenophobia in South Africa
Are migrants ‘stealing’ jobs; does South Africa have more asylum seekers than any...
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WS MoreOrLess: Wine shortage?
It has been reported that global wine supplies are running low. But shops still seem...
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WS MoreOrLess: Will Berlin see a sub-two-hour marathon?
Why is Berlin the place to break the marathon world record and how long will it be we...
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WS MoreOrLess: What is "rare"?
This week: What is ‘rare’? When we say something is rare what do we mean? strikes...
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WS MoreOrLess: To ice or not to ice?
The ALS ice bucket challenge has become a viral phenomenon. People around the world in...
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WS MoreOrLess: The UK vs Mississippi
Is Britain poorer than every US state, except for Mississippi? Journalist Fraser the...
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WS MoreOrLess: The Tour de France
The Tour de France has reached the mountains, but what does it take to be a good and...
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WS MoreOrLess: The Rise of the Giants?
Are rugby players getting bigger and bigger?
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WS MoreOrLess: The prevalence of paedophilia?
The Pope was reported to have said that 2% of Catholic clergy were paedophiles.
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WS MoreOrLess: The Piketty Affair
Did 'rock-star' French economist Thomas Piketty get his numbers wrong? His theories of...
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WS MoreOrLess: The numbers of 2013 - part 2
A guide to 2013 in numbers - the most informative, interesting and idiosyncratic of by...
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WS MoreOrLess: The numbers of 2013 - part 1
A guide to 2013 in numbers - the most informative, interesting and idiosyncratic of by...
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WS MoreOrLess: The maths of dating
How to use mathematics to find your life partner. Plus: what are the chances that two...
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WS MoreOrLess: The Ignorance Test
Professor Hans Rosling - perhaps best-described as a kind of international development...
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WS MoreOrLess: The future of food
"In the next 40 years, humans will need to produce more food that they did in the a of...
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WS MoreOrLess: The Elliptical Pool Table
Tim Harford tests the geometric properties of an elliptical pool table.
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WS MoreOrLess: Testing the PISA test
The publication of the latest international education league table has created waves...
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WS MoreOrLess: Soviet World War Deaths
Did almost 80% of the males born in the Soviet Union in 1923 not survive World War as...
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WS MoreOrLess: Sleeping: the 8-hour myth
It’s often said that we should all be aiming to get eight hours of sleep a night but...
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WS MoreOrLess: Sachin Tendulkar - best batsman of all time?
Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar has amassed 15,847 test runs, which is 2,500 more runs than...
