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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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Could you be hit by a falling satellite?
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How do you make something 10-times more lethal?
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Is the world’s population being miscounted?
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Does the average American have fewer than three friends?
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Factchecking the Trump administration’s Autism claims
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Is the UN underestimating the global fall in fertility?
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How dead is the internet?
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Warren Buffett’s brilliant bets
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Bonus episode: The Autism Curve
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Donald Trump: 100 days fact-check
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Are 80% of women really only attracted to 20% of men?
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The pioneers of proof
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How much is a human life worth?
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The mistake in Trump’s tariff formula
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Trump tariffs: All about the deficits
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Is one in four people in the UK disabled?
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What’s Trump’s problem with Canada?
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Could a 2% wealth tax raise £24bn?
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What are the chances of an asteroid hitting earth in 2032?
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Why are more people claiming disability benefits?
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How did lockdown impact children?
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What is an IQ map and can we trust them?
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DOGE, apples and irregular migrants
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DOGE, apples and irregular migrants
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Is there really $500bn of Rare Earths in Ukraine?
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Defence Spending, Rare Earths and Trunk Truths
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Has the US really given Ukraine more aid than Europe?
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Are 150 year olds getting social security payments?
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Has the US sent $50 million worth of condoms to Gaza?
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Are black babies in the US really more likely to die under the care of white doc...
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Are quantum computers already super-powerful?
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Did Trump make billions with his meme-coin?
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Can redheads handle 25% more pain than brunettes?
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Do 79% of Swedish asylum seekers go on holiday to the country they fled from?
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Numbers of the year part 2
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Numbers of the year 2024
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Did Mussolini make the trains run on time?
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How many Americans live ‘paycheck to paycheck’?
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Did one in 10 Greeks die in World War Two?
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Can Elon Musk save the US Government $2 trillion?
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Do fossil fuels get $7 trillion in subsidies?
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Did 20 million votes really go missing in the US election?
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Do we have enough clothes for the next six generations?
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What can economics learn from sport?
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Are older drivers more dangerous?
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Is Trump right about violent crime in Venezuela and the US?
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Do US crime statistics miss out the most violent cities?
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Do US crime statistics miss out the most violent cities?
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Nobel prize: Why are some countries so much richer than others?
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When are numbers like a horse at a gymkhana?
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