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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)

The Great EU Cabbage Myth

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Apr 4, 201627:50pending

WSMoreOrLess: Safe drinking

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Mar 24, 20169:14pending

WSMoreOrLess: Mobiles or lightbulbs

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Mar 18, 20169:04pending

WSMoreOrLess: Can we trust food surveys?

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Mar 11, 20169:04pending

WSMoreOrLess: Fact checking The Big Short

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Mar 4, 20169:04pending

WSMoreOrLess: Antibiotics and the problem of the broken market

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Feb 26, 20169:04pending

WSMoreOrLess: When £10,000 isn’t a good incentive

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Feb 19, 20169:04pending

WSMoreOrLess: Fishy numbers?

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Feb 15, 20169:09pending

Selfies, sugar daddies and dodgy surveys

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Feb 12, 201627:46pending

WSMoreOrLess: Do e-cigarettes really harm your chances of quitting smoking?

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Feb 8, 20169:49pending

E-cigarettes: Can They Help People Quit?

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Feb 5, 201627:55pending

Swedish refugees

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Feb 1, 20169:18pending

How harmful is alcohol?

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Jan 29, 201627:50pending

WSMoreOrLess: Oxfam and Wealth Inequality

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Jan 25, 20169:48pending

Billionaires versus the world

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Jan 22, 201627:51pending

WS MoreOrLess: Gravitational Waves

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Jan 18, 20169:46pending

Weekend Stroke Deaths

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Jan 15, 201627:59pending

WS MoreOrLess: Numbers of the Year 2015: Part Three

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Jan 11, 20169:34pending

Flood Defence Spending

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Jan 8, 201624:12pending

WSMoreOrLess: Numbers of the Year 2015 Part 2

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Jan 4, 20169:35pending

Numbers of the Year 2015

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Jan 1, 201628:02pending

WS MoreOrLess: Numbers of the Year 2015 Part 1

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Dec 25, 20159:34pending

WS MoreOrLess: How Many Stormtroopers are there?

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Dec 18, 201512:33pending

WS MoreOrLess:100 Year Floods?

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Dec 11, 20159:35pending

WS MoreOrLess: Climate Change

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Dec 8, 20159:29pending

Climate Change

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Dec 5, 20159:29pending

WS MoreOrLess: '‘Sympathy’ for jihadis

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Nov 27, 20159:35pending

Has Islamic State been Losing Territory?

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Nov 20, 20159:36pending

WS MoreOrLess: Has Islamic State been Losing Territory?

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Nov 20, 20159:36pending

WS MoreOrLess: Creativity and Mental Illness

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Nov 13, 20159:35pending

WS MoreOrLess: China's One Child Policy

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Nov 6, 20159:34pending

WS MoreOrLess: Processed Meat and Cancer

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Oct 30, 20159:34pending

WS MoreOrLess: Oil

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Oct 23, 20159:34pending

WS MoreOrLess: Foreign Aid: More Harm Than Good?

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Oct 16, 20158:58pending

WS MoreOrLess: Are Tall People More Likely to Get Cancer?

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Oct 9, 20159:35pending

WS MoreOrLess: Football’s Red Card Cliché

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Oct 2, 20159:34pending

WS MoreOrLess: How Reliable is Psychology Science?

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Sep 28, 20159:35pending

Alzheimers, Psychology science, John Conway, Red cards, Decimate

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Sep 25, 201528:22pending

WS MoreOrLess: The Rise of the Giants?

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Sep 21, 20159:35pending

Striking Numbers

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Sep 18, 201529:17pending

WS MoreOrLess: How Many is Too Many Bananas?

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Sep 14, 20159:34pending

Is it worth targetting non-voters?

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Sep 11, 201527:55pending

Queuing Backwards

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Sep 7, 20158:58pending

Fit for work or at deaths door?

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Sep 4, 201527:16pending

WS MoreOrLess: China Stock Market Crash

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Aug 31, 20159:36pending

China Stock Market Crash

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Aug 28, 201527:41pending

WS MoreOrLess: The Elliptical Pool Table

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Aug 24, 20159:33pending

Soaring diabetes - is there some good news?

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Aug 21, 201523:37pending

WS More or Less: Worm wars

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Aug 17, 20159:37pending

Migrant Crisis

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Aug 14, 201523:52pending
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