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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)

US election, stray cats and puzzles

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Nov 11, 201624:08pending

WS More or Less: Ice Cream versus aid

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Nov 7, 20169:03pending

Trump tells the Truth

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Nov 4, 201623:58pending

WS More or Less: Child Marriage, Dangerous Algorithms

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Oct 28, 20168:59pending

WS More or Less: Escobar’s Cocaine Deaths

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Oct 24, 20168:59pending

WS More or Less: Algorithms, Crime and Punishment

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Oct 14, 20168:58pending

WS More or Less: The Sustainable Development Goals – are there just too many?

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Oct 7, 20168:58pending

WS More or Less: Who Won the US Presidential Debate?

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Sep 30, 20168:58pending

WS More or Less: Trump’s crime claims

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Sep 23, 20169:03pending

WS More or Less: Wedding gift economics

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Sep 18, 20169:13pending

WS More or Less: Drug deaths in the Philippines

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Sep 12, 20169:21pending

WS More or Less: Menstrual Syncing

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Sep 5, 20169:22pending

Irish Passports

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Sep 2, 201628:02pending

Death Penalty abolition

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Aug 30, 20169:14pending

Gender Pay Gap

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Aug 26, 201627:42pending

WS More or Less: Counting Terror Deaths

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Aug 22, 20169:20pending

Counting Terror Deaths

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Aug 19, 201628:01pending

WS More or Less: Swimming World Records

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Aug 15, 20169:24pending

Grammar Schools

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Aug 12, 201628:01pending

WS More or Less: Predicting Olympic Medals

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Aug 8, 20169:25pending

Plastic Bags

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Aug 5, 201628:05pending

WS More or Less: Odd Socks and Algorithms

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Aug 1, 20169:30pending

The Supermarket Effect

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Jul 29, 201624:01pending

WS More or Less: Ireland’s Shock GDP figures

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Jul 22, 20169:23pending

WS More or Less: Violence, shootings and the police in the US

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Jul 15, 20169:21pending

WS More or Less: Sleeping: the 8-hour myth

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Jul 8, 20169:23pending

Ranking Iceland’s Football Team

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Jul 1, 20169:22pending

WS More or Less: Brexit Economics

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Jun 24, 20169:15pending

WS More or Less: When Companies Track Your Life

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Jun 20, 20169:04pending

The Referendum by Numbers: Trade

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Jun 17, 201611:42pending

The Referendum by Numbers: Regulation

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Jun 16, 201611:43pending

The Referendum by Numbers: Law

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Jun 15, 201611:46pending

The Referendum by Numbers: Immigration

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Jun 14, 201611:45pending

The Referendum by Numbers: The Cost of EU Membership

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Jun 13, 201611:16pending

WS More or Less: Sexist Data Crisis

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Jun 10, 20169:04pending

WS More or Less: HIV in Africa

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Jun 3, 20169:23pending

WS More or Less: Refugee Camp Statistics

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May 27, 20169:04pending

WS More or Less: The World's Most Profitable Product

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May 20, 20169:22pending

WS More or Less: The world’s most diverse city

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May 13, 20169:31pending

WS More or Less: Leicester City football fluke?

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May 9, 20169:24pending

The most profitable product in history

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May 6, 201627:50pending

WS More or Less: Simpson’s Paradox

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May 2, 20169:26pending

EU Migration

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Apr 29, 201628:00pending

WS More or Less: Most Expensive Building

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Apr 25, 20169:15pending

Brexit numbers

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Apr 22, 201627:38pending

WS More or Less: The life expectancy of a Pope

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Apr 18, 20169:26pending

Celebrity deaths

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Apr 15, 201628:02pending

WS More or Less: The story of average

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Apr 11, 20169:18pending

Fathers and babies

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Apr 8, 201627:56pending

WS More or Less: The Great EU Cabbage Myth

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Apr 5, 20169:28pending
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