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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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Catching Chess Cheats with Data
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Teens and antidepressants, stamp duty savings and earthquake probabilities
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NASA’s asteroid collision: how many asteroids are really out there?
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Falling pound, the Queen’s funeral and is 0.5 on the Richter scale a big number?
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Ukraine’s progress in numbers
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Ukraine offensive, weak pound & how much do women really exercise
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How bad is fashion for the environment?
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Energy crisis plan, imperial measures survey, gardens v national parks
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Is a third of Pakistan really under water?
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Pakistan flooding, UK power prices and Boris’s broadband claim
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Can we use maths to beat the robots?
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Energy prices, excess deaths and the race to count to 200
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Kenya’s Election Rounding Error
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The numbers behind “natural” birth control
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Is opinion polling broken?
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Debunking the Liverpool FC Conspiracy Theory
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How our world measures up
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Does the World Athletics Championships have a false start problem?
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Is Uganda about to become a middle income country?
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Does it take 10,000 litres of water to make a pair of jeans?
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How many American women will have an abortion in their lifetime?
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Covid climb, childcare costs and why can’t the French count properly?
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Ed Sheeran and the mathematics of musical coincidences
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Rail strikes, tyre pollution and sex statistics
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How often do people have sex?
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Maternity litigation, stars, bees and windowless planes
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Hannah Fry: Understanding the numbers of cancer
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Employment puzzle, pyramids and triplets
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Are girls starting puberty earlier?
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Jubilee costs, fuel poverty and imperial measures
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Noisy Decisions
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Germany’s excess deaths, Eurovision and teacher shortages
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Are just 100 companies responsible for 71% of global emissions and how stressed...
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Did the WHO get some of its excess death estimates wrong?
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Have the oceans become 30% more acidic?
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Sweden’s polarising pandemic response
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Understanding India through Data
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Subitising and simplifying: how to better explain numbers
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Did tea-drinking cut deaths in the Industrial Revolution?
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Will the war in Ukraine cause a global wheat shortage?
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Why has Hong Kong’s Covid wave been so bad?
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Pizza and Nuclear War
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Does the UK take in more refugees than other European countries?
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Numbers in Ukraine and low seas in Chagos
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Troop and Casualty Numbers in Ukraine
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Did lockdowns save any lives?
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Vaccinating children, lockdowns, and ebikes
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Hospitalisation rates for children with Covid
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Questioning claims about Covid and children
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Testosterone and sport
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