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Tim Harford explains - and sometimes debunks - the numbers and statistics used in political debate, the news and everyday life
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Episodes (1426)
Covid cases rising, a guide to life’s risks, and racing jelly-fish
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Sep 9, 202028:05pending
Schools and coronavirus, test and trace, maths and reality
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Sep 2, 202027:57pending
Covid plasma therapy
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Aug 26, 202027:37pending
A-level algorithms, poker and buses
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Aug 19, 202028:08pending
Belarus’ contested election
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Aug 15, 20209:08pending
Hawaiian Pizza, Obesity and a Second Wave?
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Aug 12, 202027:57pending
Melting Antarctic ice
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Aug 8, 20208:58pending
Covid in Africa
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Aug 1, 202010:07pending
Data in the time of cholera
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Jul 25, 20208:58pending
Covid misconceptions and US deaths
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Jul 18, 20208:58pending
Sweden’s lockdown lite
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Jul 11, 202014:41pending
Why Trump is wrong about the USA’s coronavirus case comeback
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Jul 4, 20209:08pending
Why Did the UK Have Such a Bad Covid-19 Epidemic?
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Jul 1, 202028:24pending
A new Covid-19 drug and a second wave
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Jun 27, 20209:11pending
Child Poverty, School Inequality and a Second Wave
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Jun 24, 202028:26pending
Who Should be Quarantined?
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Jun 20, 20209:06pending
Quarantine, Test and Trace and BODMAS
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Jun 17, 202028:55pending
Spanish coronavirus figures and pangolins
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Jun 13, 20209:05pending
Antibody tests, early lockdown advice and European deaths
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Jun 10, 202027:56pending
Keep your distance
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Jun 6, 20209:01pending
False negatives, testing capacity and pheasants
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Jun 3, 202027:56pending
Obeying lockdown, flight arrivals and is this wave of the epidemic waning?
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May 27, 202027:48pending
60 Harvests and statistically savvy parrots
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May 23, 20208:58pending
School re-opening, Germany’s Covid-19 success and statistically savvy parrots
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May 20, 202028:06pending
Social Distancing and Government Borrowing
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May 16, 20209:09pending
Vitamin D, explaining R and the 2 metre rule
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May 13, 202027:38pending
Covid-19 fatality rate
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May 9, 20208:59pending
Testing truth, fatality rates, obesity risk and trampolines.
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May 6, 202027:55pending
Climate change and birdsong
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May 2, 20209:11pending
Ethnic minority deaths, climate change and lockdown
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Apr 29, 202028:05pending
Comparing countries' coronavirus performance
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Apr 25, 20209:13pending
Bonus Podcast: Professor John Horton Conway
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Apr 23, 202014:13pending
Comparing countries, the risk to NHS staff, and birdsong
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Apr 22, 202027:54pending
Superforecasting the Coronavirus
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Apr 18, 20208:57pending
Should you wear a face mask?
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Apr 11, 20208:58pending
Coronavirus deaths, face masks and a potential baby boom
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Apr 8, 202027:57pending
Are more men dying from coronavirus?
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Apr 4, 20208:58pending
Supermarket stockpiling, A-level results and Covid-19 gender disparity
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Mar 31, 202028:02pending
The Risk
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Mar 28, 20209:10pending
Coronavirus Special
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Mar 25, 202027:41pending
Mitigation or Suppression: What’s best to tackle Coronavirus?
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Mar 21, 20209:13pending
The mystery of Iran’s coronavirus numbers
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Mar 14, 202013:43pending
How much heat do you lose from your head?
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Mar 9, 20209:05pending
How much heat do you lose from your head?
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Mar 7, 20209:05pending
Netflix vs the environment
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Feb 29, 20208:58pending
More or Less: Superforecasting, wood burning stoves and the real story of Hidden...
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Feb 28, 202025:54pending
Artificial (not so) Intelligence
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Feb 22, 20208:58pending
WS More or Less: Coronavirus - The Numbers
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Feb 15, 20208:58pending
Coronavirus, jam, AI and tomatoes
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Feb 14, 202023:18pending
WS More or Less: How fast are Alligators and Hippos?
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Feb 8, 202010:10pending
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