More or Less Episodes Episode guide
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Are African leaders more likely to die in office?
Are African leaders more likely than their counterparts elsewhere to die in office?
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Levelling the statistical playing field
Which countries over and under achieved at London 2012?
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The great playing field sell off?
How many school playing fields have really been sold off? Presented by Tim Harford.
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How to lose money - fast
Is the rapid growth of high frequency trading progress or a threat to the financial system
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How to lose money, fast
High-frequency trading, Trumptonomics and more medalling with the Olympics.
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How extraordinary is Ye Shiwen?
How extraordinary was Ye Shiwen's Olympic performance? More or Less looks at the numbers.
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How extraordinary is Ye Shiwen?
Ye Shiwen's statistics, what's happening to homelessness, and TV's murder capital.
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Gun laws and gold medals
Would tighter gun laws lead to fewer gun deaths? Also: how Olympians have changed.
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Levelling the playing field
Which countries punch above and below their weight at the Olympics? With Tim Harford.
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The Tour de France and the statistics of cheating
Can maths prove whether the Tour de France has clamped down on the use of banned drugs?
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The Tour de France and the statistics of cheating
Can maths prove whether the Tour de France has successfully clamped down on drugs?
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Who are the Libor losers?
How much damage did messing with Libor actually do to the financial system?
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Who are the Libor losers?
How much damage did messing with Libor actually do to the financial system?
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Drinks and drugs capital of the world?
Do residents of the tiny micronesian island of Palau really smoke more cannabis?
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Hit movies and killer birthdays
What is the highest-earning film ever if you adjust for inflation?
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Weight of the world
How fat could we get? Plus, statistics to the rescue in Pacquiao-Bradley boxing row.
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Chance encounters
Is the chance of bumping into your boss on holiday greater than you think?
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Interview with Daniel Kahneman
Tim Harford interviews psychologist Daniel Kahneman, who won the Nobel Prize in Economics.
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Counting images of Queen Elizabeth II
How many images of the Queen have ever been created?
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The maths of infidelity
It's often said men are less faithful than women. Is that mathematically possible?
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Would firing staff 'at will' boost the economy?
The Beecroft Review, infidelity, Ben Goldacre and the truth about hard-working Greeks.
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Hardest-working nations
Greeks may put in more hours than Germans, but who works the longest hours in the world?
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Are 120,000 families responsible for a disproportionate share of society's ills?
Troubled families, nursing numbers and the mathematical consequences of unneutered cats.
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Trouble on the Greek railways
Is Greek rail so inefficient it would be cheaper to send every passenger by taxi?
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Are CEOs worth it?
Executive pay, chess and trouble on the Greek railway.
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A grand economic experiment?
European austerity versus US stimulus.
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A grand economic experiment?
Austerity, border queues and bank holidays. With Tim Harford.
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The formula that changed the world
The Midas Formula. The story of Black-Scholes - the equation that transformed Wall Street.
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The formula that changed the world
The drought in numbers, the formula that changed the world, and tall Tories.
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Measuring species loss
Are we experiencing the greatest wave of extinction since dinosaurs?
