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More or Less: Behind the Stats Episodes

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    Bernie Sanders and the cost of having a baby

    Did Bernie Sanders get the cost of giving birth right?

  2. Ben Bernanke and the magic of banking

    Tim Harford explains the work of this year鈥檚 Nobel Economics Prize winners

  3. Belarus鈥� contested election

    Tim Harford looks at the numbers behind the widely questioned election result

  4. Bayes: the clergyman whose maths changed the world

    How an obscure theory came into fashion.

  5. Back to school

    More or Less looks at how maths is taught in schools today and it asks what the of the...

  6. Avengers - Should we reverse the snap?

    Exploring the economic impact of losing half the world鈥檚 population

  7. Australian Animal Deaths, Carbon Emissions, Election Mystery

    How many animals have died in Australia and how many Labour voters went Conservative?

  8. Austerity: a spreadsheet error?

    Tim Harford tells the story of the student who uncovered a mistake in a famous paper...

  9. Austerity, border queues and bank holidays (R4)

    Are we witnessing a grand economic experiment playing out between Britain and the How...

  10. Austerity Deaths, C-Sections and being struck by lightning

    Has Austerity caused 120 thousand deaths in the UK and does God hate men?

  11. Auction Theory - Paul Milgrom and Robert Wilson

    This year鈥檚 Nobel memorial prize winners for economics and their work on auction theory.

  12. Asymptomatic Covid19 Cases

    How many Covid19 cases are truly asymptomatic?

  13. Ash Die Back and Fergie Time

    This is the first in the new series of the programme. Tim Harford has been busy some...

  14. Artificial (not so) Intelligence

    Is the problem with AI its lack of intelligence?

  15. Are young people more single than ever before?

    How to define and measure being single 鈥� and are dating apps to blame?

  16. Are you related to Edward III - and Danny Dyer?

    What are the odds of being related to a medieval king? and how many cows for a fiver?

  17. Are women in the UK the biggest binge drinkers in the world?

    Checking out stats on boozing Brits and fishing fleets in the South China Sea

  18. Are women 32% more likely to die after operation by a male surgeon?

    Surgery death risks, Test and Trace costs in the UK and Germany, and podcast plans

  19. Are women 14 times more likely to die in natural disasters?

    We unpick the idea that women outnumber men by 14 to 1 as casualties of natural disasters

  20. Are wild mammals only 4% of the mammal population?

    Are wild mammals only 4% of the mammal population?

  21. Are there more stars than grains of beach sand?

    Stars vs Sand. We work out who wins the ultimate cosmic battle.

  22. Are there more possible games of chess than atoms in the universe?

    We investigate how the vast possibilities in chess compare to the vastness of the universe

  23. Are there more black men in college or prison in the US?

    Only last week Ivory Toldson heard the speaker say there are more black men in prison...

  24. Are there 40 million Nigerians on Twitter?

    Recent reports have claimed that Nigeria has 40 million Twitter users 鈥� but is this true?

  25. Are there 15,000 transgender people serving in the US military?

    President Trump says transgender individuals cannot serve, but how many do already?

  26. Are the media exaggerating how hot it is in the Mediterranean?

    A look at how accurately media report on the weather 鈥� especially recent heatwaves.

  27. Are quantum computers already super-powerful?

    We investigate what a big claim about the speed of a quantum chip really means

  28. Are older drivers more dangerous?

    Plus, winter fuel deaths, prison sentence maths and leaves on railway tracks.

  29. Are older drivers more dangerous?

    Plus, winter fuel deaths, prison sentence maths and leaves on railway tracks.

  30. Are Natural Disasters on the Rise?

    Has the number of natural disasters really quadrupled in the last forty years?

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