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More or Less: Behind the Stats Episodes

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    Can China鈥檚 GDP data be trusted?

    Are China鈥檚 most recent figures for economic growth wrong?

  2. Can China's data on covid deaths be trusted?

    Is China under-reporting data on Covid related deaths?

  3. Can big data save lives?

    With an avalanche of 2. 5 quintillion bytes of data generated daily, could this be used...

  4. Cameron鈥檚 1000 jobs

    Fact-checking the Conservatives' employment claims; the price of milk; unhappy how to...

  5. Calling the shots at Wimbledon

    Using statistics to prove or disprove the wisdom of tennis.

  6. C-sections and sharks

    Hospital births in China and whether it鈥檚 true 50% are delivered by caesarean section

  7. British Law - Made in Brussels?

    How much British law is made in Brussels - 75% as UKIP say, or 7% as Nick Clegg says?...

  8. Britain's 80,000 homeless children

    About 80,000 children will wake up homeless on Christmas Day, according to the charity...

  9. Brexit numbers

    Do the Treasury's Brexit numbers add up?

  10. Brexit exports, cladding and are 1 in 5 disabled?

    Are exports to the EU down since Brexit? Plus removing flammable building cladding.

  11. Brexit and trade, pensioner millionaires and Hannah Fry on loyalty cards and cancer

    We examine a claim that the UK鈥檚 trade with the EU has increased since Brexit

  12. Breaking Climate Records

    The odds and probability behind record-breaking temperatures

  13. Brain Food and Bacteria

    There's not an obvious link between chocolate and Nobel prizes, but this did not stop...

  14. Brain Culture Part 3

    In a change to our usual format, we are podcasting Matthew Taylor's "Brain Culture"...

  15. Brain Culture Part 2

    In a change to the usual format, we are podcasting Matthew Taylor's "Brain Culture"...

  16. Brain Culture Part 1

    In a change to the usual format, we are podcasting Matthew Taylor鈥檚 series 鈥淏rain...

  17. Bonus Podcast: Professor John Horton Conway

    Mathematician John Conway died in April as a result of Covid-19.

  18. BONUS PODCAST: Economics with Subtitles - How Condoms Can Cost a Week鈥檚 Wages

    Inflation can change your sex life 鈥� and pretty much everything else.

  19. BONUS PODCAST: Economics with Subtitles - Coffins Full of Car Keys

    Why we have interest rates, how we misunderstand them - and a curious coffin connection.

  20. BONUS PODCAST: Economics with Subtitles - Bracelets for Bullets

    Why an Essex mum wanted her jewellery melted down and what it says about government debt

  21. BONUS PODCAST: Economics with Subtitles - How Buying Cocaine Helps the Government

    The surprising story of GDP and whether it's time to change how we measure our economy

  22. Bonus Episode: Understand the Economy

    Tim Harford brings you the first episode of his new podcast and explains inflation

  23. Bonus episode: the first ever More or Less

    A chat with More or Less's founding producer and presenter plus the first episode in full

  24. Bonus episode: Daniel Kahneman on Thinking, Fast and Slow

    In an episode of More or Less from 2012, Daniel Kahneman explains his big ideas.

  25. Bolton vaccines, Yorkshire versus Scotland and the average gamer

    Were tens of thousands of people getting their jab in Bolton every single day?

  26. Bolivia: Can statistics help detect electoral fraud?

    We look at the numbers and statistics from Bolivia鈥檚 disputed presidential election.

  27. Birds, Mozart, austerity, Thatcher

    Birds + windows =? The 91热爆 Quiz show The Unbelievable Truth reckons that more than 2...

  28. Billionaires versus the world

    Does it matter that 62 people now own as much wealth as half of the world鈥檚 population?

  29. Biggest Movies

    Jurassic World took $511m in its first weekend. Why have recent films done so well?

  30. Big numbers

    More or Less examines this week's claims and counter-claims about VAT, exposes some -...

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