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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Does wearing a mask halve your chances of getting Covid-19?
Sun 5 Dec 2021
Is it true wearing a mask reduces Covid-19 incidence by 53%?
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Simpson鈥檚 Paradox: How to make vaccinated death figures misleading
Sun 28 Nov 2021
A tricky statistical phenomenon at play.
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The carbon cost of breakfast at COP26
Sat 13 Nov 2021
Can a vegan croissant really be worse for the environment than a bacon roll?
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Same data, opposite results. Can we trust research?
Sat 6 Nov 2021
Why the same data can produce different conclusions.
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The art of counting
Sat 30 Oct 2021
Tim Harford talks to author Deborah Stone about her book which explores counting
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The numbers behind Squid Game
Sat 23 Oct 2021
Could you survive a round in Squid Game, and how many have watched it?
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The prize-winning economics of migration and the minimum wage
Sat 16 Oct 2021
A look at the work of this year鈥檚 winners of the most prestigious prize in economics.
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Vaccinating the world
Sat 9 Oct 2021
How countries鈥� vaccination rates measure up 鈥� and the trickiness of comparing them.
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Has the number of periods a woman has in her lifetime quadrupled?
Sat 25 Sep 2021
A claim about how many periods a woman has and a suspicious stat on single-use face masks
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How many holes are there in a drinking straw?
Sat 18 Sep 2021
Tim Harford talks to Jordan Ellenberg about the pandemic, geometry and drinking straws
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Is immunity from vaccines waning?
Sat 11 Sep 2021
How worried should we be about declining antibodies? Plus life-threatening hotdogs.
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Reason, numbers and Mr Spock
Sat 28 Aug 2021
What role do numbers play in helping us think more rationally?
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The extraordinary life of Robert Moses
Sat 21 Aug 2021
The life of mathematics educator and civil rights organiser, Dr Robert Moses
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How good were the performances at the Tokyo Olympics?
Sat 14 Aug 2021
What can the data tell us about the quality of the Covid hit games?
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Jab fears explained: a base rate fallacy
Sat 7 Aug 2021
Why increasing Covid infections amongst the vaccinated isn鈥檛 necessarily bad news.
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Breaking climate records
Sat 31 Jul 2021
The odds and probability behind record-breaking temperatures
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The Rise of Delta
Sat 24 Jul 2021
Where鈥檚 this new Variant spreading and what can be done to stop it?
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Long Covid and Vaccinating Children
Sat 17 Jul 2021
The world watches as the UK lifts its remaining Covid restrictions
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Are there 40 million Nigerians on Twitter?
Sat 10 Jul 2021
Recent reports have claimed that Nigeria has 40 million Twitter users 鈥� but is this true?
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Is Ivermectin a Covid 鈥榳onder drug鈥�?
Sat 3 Jul 2021
What do we know about the efficacy of Ivermectin as a treatment for Covid-19?
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Maths and the Mayflower
Sat 26 Jun 2021
Are there really 35 million descendants of the Mayflower alive today?
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The Seaspiracy 鈥渧irtually empty ocean鈥� claim
Sat 29 May 2021
Why it鈥檚 unlikely our oceans will be virtually empty by 2048.
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The medical trial that proved Trump wrong
Sat 22 May 2021
The Recovery Trial identified drugs that helped save lives.
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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.
