More or Less Episodes Episode guide
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Is JD Vance right about left-wing violence?
Following the murder of Charlie Kirk, what is the data on political violence in the US?
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Is it true that out-of-work benefits have almost doubled?
Out-of-work benefits, French pensioners, surprising salmon and the truth about senses.
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Will the world really be 50 million workers short by 2030?
Is Nvidia boss Jensen Huang right about a looming labour shortfall?
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Are Afghan nationals more likely to be convicted of sexual offences?
National debt, Afghan crime, menopause retirement and literal snail pace.
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Do 11,000 sharks die every hour?
Investigating if 100 million sharks are killed by fishing nets every year.
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Are self-driving cars safer than cars with drivers?
We look at claims that fully autonomous cars are 5 or ten times safer
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Do women feel the cold more than men?
We investigate if air conditioning is set too cold for women.
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How weird was the Mediterranean Sea heatwave?
Did the Mediterranean experience a 1 in 216,000,000,000-year sea temperature anomaly?
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Why it matters that Trump fired data chief
The US president fired Erika McEntarfer over job numbers. What鈥檚 the potential fallout?
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Are abortion numbers rising in the US?
Looking at the data behind abortion in a post Dobbs America.
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Does a single AI query use a bottle of water?
We investigate how much water and power are used by artificial intelligence
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Are one in six children living through war?
A Unicef event said one in six children are living though war. What does that really mean?
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Why Manchester United can afford to play badly
How a successful football club doesn鈥檛 always require a winning team
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Can drinking one less bottle of coke a day halve obesity?
Plus, the UK鈥檚 expensive electricity, church counts and babies in the City of London.
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The economics of war: Vikings, Conquistadors and Vietnam
Economist and author Duncan Weldon on his new book Blood and Treasure
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Is the UK seeing a Christian revival?
Plus: PIP claims, immigrant returns and spotting golf balls on the moon.
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Has Russia suffered a million casualties in the Ukraine war?
Making sense of the numbers around the Russian dead and wounded.
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Why is data on grooming gangs so bad?
Plus, nuclear enrichment numbers, Curtice on Curtis and Viking economics.
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How to spot a suspicious statistic
Professor Alex Edmans on his book, May Contain Lies
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Are 4% of young women in the UK on OnlyFans?
Plus, asylum seeker hotel bill, Scottish water use and 1950s childcare claim.
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Could you be hit by a falling satellite?
Investigating if 100,000 satellites could be orbiting earth in five years鈥� time
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How do you make something 10-times more lethal?
Plus, the Sycamore Gap tree, pensioner-worker ratios and yoga v fishers.
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Is the world鈥檚 population being miscounted?
Investigating if the global population is really 2 billion higher than previously thought
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Does the average American have fewer than three friends?
Plus, skilled migrants, preventing Alzheimer鈥檚 and Robert Prevost on God and probability.
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Factchecking the Trump administration鈥檚 Autism claims
Why has the rate of autism risen so dramatically in the last 30 years?
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Is the UN underestimating the global fall in fertility?
How one graph shows the conservative side of the United Nations鈥� population estimates
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How dead is the internet?
We investigate the claim that bots make up 50% of internet traffic
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Warren Buffett鈥檚 brilliant bets
How retiring Berkshire Hathaway boss Warren Buffett made his money and made a point
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Donald Trump: 100 days fact-check
Working out the reality behind President Trump鈥檚 claims on immigration, fentanyl and eggs
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Are 80% of women really only attracted to 20% of men?
Dispelling an incel myth that featured in the Netflix drama Adolescence
