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More or Less: Behind the Stats Episodes

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    WS More or Less: Is my Baby a Giant?

    Tim Harford explains the numbers and statistics in the news and in life.

  2. WS More or Less: Is democracy failing in America?

    Does North Carolina really rank alongside North Korea if you measure electoral integrity

  3. WS More or Less: Is China On Track to End Poverty by 2020?

    We investigate whether the Chinese government can really achieve its extraordinary pledge

  4. WS More or Less: Ireland鈥檚 Shock GDP figures

    Does Ireland have the fastest growing economy in the world?

  5. WS More or Less: Ice Cream versus aid

    Does the world really spend three times as much on ice cream than on humanitarian aid?

  6. WS More or Less: How to measure a Hurricane

    What鈥檚 the best way to measure a hurricane?

  7. WS More or Less: How Should We Think About Spending?

    Tim Harford talks to economist Dan Ariely about the psychology of money.

  8. WS More or Less: How Rich was Jane Austen鈥檚 Mr Darcy?

    What the Pride and Prejudice character would have earned in today鈥檚 money.

  9. WS More or Less: How Many Animals are Born Every Day?

    From penguins to nematodes - is it possible to count how many animals are born every day?

  10. WS More or Less: How Louis Bachelier Scooped Economists by Half a Century

    A forgotten French mathematician鈥檚 unusual approach to the stock market.

  11. WS More or Less: How fast are Alligators and Hippos?

    Can alligators run at 50kmph? Join us in clocking alligators鈥� gaits.

  12. WS More or Less: How Deadly Was 1920s Melbourne?

    We investigate the murder rate in popular crime series Miss Fisher鈥檚 Murder Mysteries.

  13. WS More or Less: HIV in Africa

    Are 74% of African girls aged 15-24 HIV positive?

  14. WS More or Less: Have 65% of future jobs not yet been invented?

    Education is failing our kids, claim experts. We go sleuthing around the world.

  15. WS More or Less: Has Russian Drinking Fallen by 80% in five years?

    Alcohol consumption has fallen sharply according to Russia鈥檚 health ministry

  16. WS More or Less: Hans Rosling - the extraordinary life of a statistical guru

    A tribute to Hans Rosling, a master communicator with a passion for global development.

  17. WS More or Less: Hans Rosling - the extraordinary life of a statistical guru

    A tribute to Hans Rosling, a master communicator with a passion for global development.

  18. WS More or Less: Good news on renewables?

    Renewable capacity has surpassed that of coal鈥搃s this good news? Plus an asteroid update.

  19. WS More or Less: From the archives: Groundhogs and Kings

    Assessing the accuracy of a Groundhog; How many English people have right royal relatives?

  20. WS More or Less: Foreign Aid: Who鈥檚 the most generous?

    In foreign aid terms what鈥檚 the best way of measuring how generous a country is?

  21. WS More or Less: Florence Nightingale 鈥� recognising the nurse statistician

    How collecting data about the dead led the famous nurse to promote better sanitation.

  22. WS More or Less: Exposing the biases we have of the world

    Statistician Hans Rosling鈥檚 family talk about the book they co-wrote about preconceptions

  23. WS More or Less: Ethiopia鈥檚 350m trees in a day

    Were millions of trees planted in just one day in Ethiopia?

  24. WS More or Less: Escobar鈥檚 Cocaine Deaths

    How many people die for every kilo of cocaine?

  25. WS More or Less: Drug deaths in the Philippines

    How many people have died during President Duterte鈥檚 drug crackdown?

  26. WS More or Less: Dozy Science

    How much sleep do we really need?

  27. WS More or Less: Does Sweden Really Have a Six Hour Day?

    Can you reduce working hours without affecting productivity?

  28. WS More or Less: Does Sweden really have a six hour day?

    Can you reduce working hours without affecting productivity?

  29. WS More or Less: Does San Francisco have more rough sleepers than Britain?

    Are the shocking statistics true? and how do you count people who don't wish to be found?

  30. WS More or Less: Does Eating Chocolate Make Your Brain Younger?

    Are research findings misrepresented by funders, PR machines and the media?

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