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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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The prime minister in statistical bother
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Can you fool your brain?
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Does the UK have the fastest growing economy in the G7?
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Fertility rates: baby boom or bust?
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Should you follow the 5 second rule? And does inflation hit the poorest harder?
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Are female patients more likely to die if the surgeon is male?
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Are women 32% more likely to die after operation by a male surgeon?
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QAnon: Did 365,348 children go missing in the US in 2020?
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Omicron, pandemic birth rates and boosters
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How much plastic is in the Ocean and can Mr Beast make a difference?
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Will the population of Nigeria be larger than Europe’s?
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Numbers of 2021
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The psychological economics of gift giving
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Does catching covid give you more immunity than being vaccinated?
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Does wearing a mask halve your chances of getting Covid-19?
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Simpson’s Paradox: How to make vaccinated death figures misleading
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A TikTok tale
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The carbon cost of breakfast at COP26
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Same data, opposite results. Can we trust research?
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The art of counting
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The numbers behind Squid Game
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The prize-winning economics of migration and the minimum wage
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Bonus episode: the first ever More or Less
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Twenty years of More or Less
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The Gender Pay Gap
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Is it easy being green?
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Covid trends, face mask use, and the universal credit cut
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How many holes are there in a drinking straw?
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Death, Tax and Dishwashers
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Vaccine waning, hot dogs and Afghanistan
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The Bill for Afghanistan
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Covid, HGV driver shortages and protest costs
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Reason, numbers and Mr Spock
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The extraordinary life of Robert Moses
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How good were the performances at the Tokyo Olympics?
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Jab fears explained: a base rate fallacy
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Breaking Climate Records
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The Rise of Delta
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The Freedom Day Gamble
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Are there 40 million Nigerians on Twitter?
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Is Ivermectin a Covid ‘wonder drug’?
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Scotland cases, flood risk and taxing the poor
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Maths and the Mayflower
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Delta cases, blue tits and that one-in-two cancer claim
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The origins of Covid
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Covid deaths, outdoor swimming and care homes
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The doubling of life-expectancy
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Third wave fears, smart motorways and bra sizes
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Bolton vaccines, Yorkshire versus Scotland and the average gamer
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The Seaspiracy “virtually empty ocean” claim
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