More or Less Episodes Episode guide
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Did 20 million votes really go missing in the US election?
We investigate a viral graph that suggests turnout was drastically lower than in 2020
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Do we have enough clothes for the next six generations?
We delve into the stats on the scale of the fashion industry
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What can economics learn from sport?
From loss aversion to game theory, how sports provide evidence for economic theories
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Are older drivers more dangerous?
Plus, winter fuel deaths, prison sentence maths and leaves on railway tracks.
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Is Trump right about violent crime in Venezuela and the US?
Donald Trump says Venezuela is becoming safer than the US. Is he right?
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Do US crime statistics miss out the most violent cities?
Plus: MP capital gains claims and grizzly bear berry habits.
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Nobel Prize: Why are some countries so much richer than others?
Why Acemoglu, Johnson and Robinson won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics
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When are numbers like a horse at a gymkhana?
Plus: the taxes of 60 very rich people, water bill spreadsheets, and is 0 a small number?
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Uncertainty, probability and double yoked eggs
Professor Sir David Spiegelhalter on his new book, The Art of Uncertainty
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Should the government target persnuffle?
Plus, childhood obesity, birds hitting windows and Sir David Spiegelhalter鈥檚 origin story.
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Are 672 billion pounds of corn eaten in the US every year?
A lot of corn is eaten in the United States, but is it really 2.5kg per person per day?
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How do you breed seventeen octillion rats?
Plus, GPs working less, the UK working less, and Wetherspoons wanting to pay less tax.
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The puzzles you鈥檙e meant to get wrong
Alex Bellos sets Tim Harford logical conundrums designed to deceive
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Could the winter fuel cut cost more than it saves?
Plus, ONS transgender stats, early-onset cancer, and puzzles you鈥檙e meant to get wrong.
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Do 85% of the world鈥檚 population practice a religion?
Counting religions across the globe 鈥� is the world getting more religious or less?
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How do you count millionaires?
Plus, asylum seeker costs, private school bets and Baumol's cost disease
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Nate Silver: Do risk-takers run the world?
Poker player and polling analyst Nate Silver on his new book
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How long does it take to turn around an oil tanker?
Plus migrants v pensioners and Ed Miliband鈥檚 energy auction claim.
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Who pays when trade wars heat up?
We look at Donald Trump鈥檚 claim that tariffs are a tax on other countries
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Exclusions, black holes and dividing by zero
Plus special educational needs in Wales and Ghanian nurses in the UK.
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Where have Cuba鈥檚 people gone?
We investigate the collapse in the Caribbean island鈥檚 population.
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Do we eat a credit card's worth of microplastic each week?
We look at whether humans really ingest five grams of microplastic on a weekly basis
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Are companies making more money from their customers?
We investigate claims mark-ups are larger than ever
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Is planet Earth getting greener?
Jordan Peterson says Earth has greened by 20% in 20 years. Is he right?
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Does a language die every two weeks?
Languages are disappearing. We investigate claims of how often this happens
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Are women 14 times more likely to die in natural disasters?
We unpick the idea that women outnumber men by 14 to 1 as casualties of natural disasters
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Is increasing turbulence making flying more dangerous?
Exploring the link between bumpy flights and climate change.
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Federer鈥檚 54%: Tennis stats explained
How Federer became the best in the world winning just over half the points he played
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The magic of trigonometry
Tim Harford interviews Matt Parker on his latest book 鈥楲ove Triangle鈥�
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Election endings, tennis and meeting men in finance
The UK's money troubles, NHS managers and a 54% chance of winning a point in tennis.
