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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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Wales jab success, Eurovision and living with your parents
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The medical trial that proved Trump wrong
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Explaining maths without Numbers
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Finding Mexico City’s real death toll
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Bayes: the clergyman whose maths changed the world
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Will 2021 have more Covid deaths than 2020?
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How many swimming pools full of vaccine do we need?
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Clot risks: The Pill versus the vaccine
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Too fast for Minecraft?
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In praise of Covid Data
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Deciding when to suspend a vaccine
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The truth about obesity and Covid 19
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Sainthood and Cup draws
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Why are US Covid cases falling?
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Covid 19 death count: which countries are faring worst?
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Comparing death counts, Lock Down drinking and Long Covid
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How much Covid in the World?
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Brexit exports, cladding and are 1 in 5 disabled?
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Glasgow vs Rwanda
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Teachers, Test & Trace and Butterflies
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The Rapid Test Row
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Deaths at Home, Supermarket Infections and the Cobra Effect
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Deaths at Home, Supermarket Infections and the Cobra Effect
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Deaths at home, supermarket infections and the Cobra effect
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Counting Covid’s impact on GDP
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Will the vaccine bring back normal life? GDP and Fishing
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Will the vaccine bring back normal life? GDP and Fishing
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How effective is one dose of the vaccine?
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How effective is one dose of the vaccine?
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Ants and Algorithms
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Numbers of the year: Part two
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Numbers of the year: Part one
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The economics of a Covid Christmas
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QAnon: Child runaways and trafficking numbers debunked
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Vaccines: how safe and who gets it?
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Tracking Covid 19
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Inviting Covid for Dinner
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Vaccine numbers
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How deadly is Covid 19?
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Asymptomatic Covid19 Cases
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US election: facts or fiction
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US election: facts or fiction
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Auction Theory - Paul Milgrom and Robert Wilson
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A short history of probability
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Spreadsheet snafu, ‘Long Covid’ quantified, and the birth of probability
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“Record” Covid cases, Trump on the death count, and ant pheromones
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Covid curve queried, false positives, and the Queen’s head
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The magical maths of pool testing
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Covid testing capacity, refugee numbers, and mascara
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Covid cases rising, a guide to life’s risks, and racing jelly-fish
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