More or Less Podcast
Tim Harford explains - and sometimes debunks - the numbers and statistics used in political debate, the news and everyday life
Episodes to download
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Finding Mexico City鈥檚 real death toll
Sat 8 May 2021
How two data detectives revealed the pandemic鈥檚 impact.
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Bayes: the clergyman whose maths changed the world
Sat 1 May 2021
How an obscure theory came into fashion.
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Will 2021 have more Covid deaths than 2020?
Sat 24 Apr 2021
We ask if this year鈥檚 global death toll will surpass 1.8 million.
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How many swimming pools full of vaccine do we need
Sat 17 Apr 2021
Adding together the doses for everyone on the planet.
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Clot risks: The Pill versus the vaccine
Sat 10 Apr 2021
AstraZeneca鈥檚 clot controversy turns attention on the contraceptive pill.
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Too fast for Minecraft?
Sat 3 Apr 2021
Gamers raise suspicions over speed run times - are they right?
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Deciding when to suspend a vaccine
Sat 20 Mar 2021
Weighing up the risk of unproven side effects with stopping Covid-19
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The truth about obesity and Covid-19
Sat 13 Mar 2021
Are countries with higher obesity rates suffering from more deaths?
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Why are US Covid cases falling?
Sat 27 Feb 2021
From herd immunity to the weather, Tim Harford explores the theories
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Covid 19 death count: Which countries are faring worst?
Sat 20 Feb 2021
Tim Harford finds out if we can trust international comparisons with the available data.
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How much Covid in the world?
Sat 13 Feb 2021
Counting all the virus particles in every human on the planet.
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Glasgow vs Rwanda
Sat 6 Feb 2021
Could life expectancy in some parts of Glasgow be worse than in Rwanda?
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Deaths at 91福利社, Supermarket Infections and the Cobra Effect
Wed 27 Jan 2021
Where are people catching Covid-19?
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Counting Covid鈥檚 impact on GDP
Sat 23 Jan 2021
Which countries have done worse, and what can GDP tell us?
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Will the vaccine bring back normal life? GDP and Fishing
Wed 20 Jan 2021
If we vaccinate the top four priority groups by February, how much will things change?
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How effective is one Covid vaccine dose?
Sat 16 Jan 2021
Calculating the protection given by the Pfizer/BioNtech vaccine
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How effective is one dose of the vaccine?
Wed 13 Jan 2021
Is the first dose of the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine 52% or 90% effective?
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QAnon: Child runaways and trafficking numbers debunked
Sat 12 Dec 2020
Tackling statistics spread by conspiracy theorists.
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Vaccines: How safe and who gets it?
Sat 5 Dec 2020
Is it too soon to approve for use? Plus choosing who goes first.
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Inviting Covid for Dinner
Sat 21 Nov 2020
If you go to a gathering of 25 people, what are the chances one of you has coronavirus?
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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?
91福利社 Ideas discovers three easy ways to help make sense of statistics.
