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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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Uncertainty, probability and double yoked eggs
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Should the government target persnuffle?
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Are 672 billion pounds of corn eaten in the US every year?
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How do you breed seventeen octillion rats?
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The puzzles you’re meant to get wrong
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Could the winter fuel cut cost more than it saves?
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Do 85% of the world’s population practice a religion?
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How do you count millionaires?
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Nate Silver: Do risk-takers run the world?
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How long does it take to turn around an oil tanker?
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Who pays when trade wars heat up?
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Exclusions, black holes and dividing by zero
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Where have Cuba’s people gone?
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Do we eat a credit card's worth of microplastic each week?
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Are companies making more money from their customers?
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Is planet Earth getting greener?
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Does a language die every two weeks?
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Are women 14 times more likely to die in natural disasters?
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Is increasing turbulence making flying more dangerous?
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Federer’s 54%: Tennis stats explained
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The magic of trigonometry
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Election endings, tennis and meeting men in finance
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How a tick box doubled the US maternal mortality rates.
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Election claims and erection claims
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Do ‘pig butchering’ cyber scams make as much as half Cambodia’s GDP?
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Worse mortgages, better readers, and potholes on the moon
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Shakespeare’s maths
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Leaflets, taxes, oil workers and classrooms
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Why medical error is not the third leading cause of death in the US
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Debate, Reform, tax evasion and ants
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Data for India
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UK growth, prisons and Swiftonomics
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Is intermittent fasting going to kill you?
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MP misconduct, NHS waiting lists and gold (gold)
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Are falling marriage rates causing happiness to fall in the US?
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Is reading for pleasure the single biggest factor in how well a child does in li...
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Do one in five young Americans think the holocaust is a myth?
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Has Milei fixed Argentina’s inflation problem?
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98%: Is misinformation being spread about a review of trans youth medicine?
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Tackling The Three-Body Problem
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Is loneliness as bad for you as smoking?
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Remembering Daniel Kahneman
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Bonus episode: Daniel Kahneman on Thinking, Fast and Slow
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What's happening to Arctic ice?
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Does the Russian government really spend 40% of its budget on the military?
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Is public speaking really our biggest fear?
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Ultramarathons: Are women faster than men?
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School spending, excess deaths and billions of animals at Heathrow
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NBA basketball: Is height more important than skill?
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Per capita GDP, MP claims and the entire EU budget
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