More or Less: Behind the Stats

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Tim Harford and the More or Less team try to make sense of the statistics which surround us. From BBC Radio 4


Episode Date
Do fossil fuels get $7 trillion in subsidies?
Nov 23, 2024
Did 20 million votes really go missing in the US election?
Nov 16, 2024
Do we have enough clothes for the next six generations?
Nov 09, 2024
What can economics learn from sport?
Nov 02, 2024
Are older drivers more dangerous?
Oct 30, 2024
Is Trump right about violent crime in Venezuela and the US?
Oct 26, 2024
Do US crime statistics miss out the most violent cities?
Oct 23, 2024
Nobel prize: Why are some countries so much richer than others?
Oct 19, 2024
When are numbers like a horse at a gymkhana?
Oct 16, 2024
Uncertainty, probability and double yoked eggs
Oct 12, 2024
Should the government target persnuffle?
Oct 09, 2024
Are 672 billion pounds of corn eaten in the US every year?
Oct 05, 2024
How do you breed seventeen octillion rats?
Oct 02, 2024
The puzzles you’re meant to get wrong
Sep 28, 2024
Could the winter fuel cut cost more than it saves?
Sep 25, 2024
Do 85% of the world’s population practice a religion?
Sep 21, 2024
How do you count millionaires?
Sep 18, 2024
Nate Silver: Do risk-takers run the world?
Sep 14, 2024
How long does it take to turn around an oil tanker?
Sep 11, 2024
Who pays when trade wars heat up?
Sep 07, 2024
Exclusions, black holes and dividing by zero
Sep 04, 2024
Where have Cuba’s people gone?
Aug 31, 2024
Do we eat a credit card's worth of microplastic each week?
Aug 24, 2024
Are companies making more money from their customers?
Aug 17, 2024
Is planet Earth getting greener?
Aug 10, 2024
Does a language die every two weeks?
Aug 03, 2024
Are women 14 times more likely to die in natural disasters?
Jul 27, 2024
Is increasing turbulence making flying more dangerous?
Jul 20, 2024
Federer’s 54%: Tennis stats explained
Jul 13, 2024
The magic of trigonometry
Jul 06, 2024
Election endings, tennis and meeting men in finance
Jul 03, 2024
How a tick box doubled the US maternal mortality rates.
Jun 29, 2024
Election claims and erection claims
Jun 26, 2024
Do ‘pig butchering’ cyber scams make as much as half Cambodia’s GDP?
Jun 22, 2024
Worse mortgages, better readers, and potholes on the moon
Jun 19, 2024
Shakespeare’s maths
Jun 15, 2024
Leaflets, taxes, oil workers and classrooms
Jun 12, 2024
Why medical error is not the third leading cause of death in the US
Jun 08, 2024
Debate, Reform, tax evasion and ants
Jun 05, 2024
Data for India
Jun 01, 2024
UK growth, prisons and Swiftonomics
May 29, 2024
Is intermittent fasting going to kill you?
May 25, 2024
MP misconduct, NHS waiting lists and gold (gold)
May 22, 2024
Are falling marriage rates causing happiness to fall in the US?
May 18, 2024
Is reading for pleasure the single biggest factor in how well a child does in life?
May 11, 2024
Do one in five young Americans think the holocaust is a myth?
May 04, 2024
Has Milei fixed Argentina’s inflation problem?
Apr 26, 2024
98%: Is misinformation being spread about a review of trans youth medicine?
Apr 20, 2024
Tackling The Three-Body Problem
Apr 13, 2024
Is loneliness as bad for you as smoking?
Apr 06, 2024
Remembering Daniel Kahneman
Mar 30, 2024
Bonus episode: Daniel Kahneman on Thinking, Fast and Slow
Mar 28, 2024
What's happening to Arctic ice?
Mar 25, 2024
Does the Russian government really spend 40% of its budget on the military?
Mar 16, 2024
Is public speaking really our biggest fear?
Mar 09, 2024
Ultramarathons: Are women faster than men?
Mar 02, 2024
School spending, excess deaths and billions of animals at Heathrow
Feb 28, 2024
NBA basketball: Is height more important than skill?
Feb 24, 2024
Per capita GDP, MP claims and the entire EU budget
Feb 21, 2024
The digital ‘robots’ unlocking medical data
Feb 17, 2024
Debt, students, shark and chips
Feb 14, 2024
The global gender split in young people’s politics
Feb 10, 2024
Council tax weirdness: Hartlepool vs Westminster
Feb 07, 2024
A pocket-size history of the calculator
Feb 03, 2024
Measles, Traitors and the cost of Brexit
Jan 31, 2024
Is Oxfam right about the world’s richest and poorest people?
Jan 27, 2024
Shopping, shipping and wind chill-ing
Jan 24, 2024
Are there more possible games of chess than atoms in the universe?
Jan 20, 2024
Life expectancy, inheritance tax and the NHS vs winter
Jan 17, 2024
Do we see 10,000 adverts per day?
Jan 13, 2024
Deaths, taxes and missing cats
Jan 10, 2024
How much money do the ‘Ndrangheta mafia make?
Jan 06, 2024
Numbers of the year 2023
Dec 30, 2023
Can chocolate be better than salad?
Dec 23, 2023
China’s missing numbers
Dec 16, 2023
Does endurance sport harm your heart?
Dec 09, 2023
Will there be a billion climate refugees?
Dec 02, 2023
A boy meets girl meets stats story
Nov 25, 2023
Are women in the UK the biggest binge drinkers in the world?
Nov 18, 2023
Can maths prove the existence of aliens?
Nov 11, 2023
Do Indian women own 11% of the world’s gold?
Nov 04, 2023
The Overlooked Mathematicians of History
Oct 28, 2023
What do windscreen splats tell us about insect decline?
Oct 21, 2023
Greedy jobs and the gender pay gap
Oct 14, 2023
Are half the words in English from French?
Oct 07, 2023
Vaccine claims, Alzheimer's treatment and Tim's Parkrun times
Oct 04, 2023
Is the UK really ahead in cutting carbon emissions?
Sep 30, 2023
NHS consultant pay, Net Zero claims and Scotland's ferry woes
Sep 27, 2023
Which city has the longest canals?
Sep 23, 2023
Social housing, NHS workforce and Liz Truss debt claims
Sep 20, 2023
How to approach the world through numbers
Sep 16, 2023
Skin cancer, London rents and your great great great granddaughter
Sep 13, 2023
Did 35,000 Americans die building the Panama Canal?
Sep 11, 2023
Covid deaths, North Sea gas and Chloe Kelly's World Cup penalty
Sep 06, 2023
What percentage of our brain do we actually use?
Sep 02, 2023
HS2 and electric cars, UK vs China emissions & massive maths errors
Aug 30, 2023
How safe is the release of Fukushima nuclear plant water?
Aug 26, 2023
How many butterflies are there in the world?
Aug 19, 2023
Why is it so hard to predict the outcome of competitions like the Premier League?
Aug 12, 2023
Are the media exaggerating how hot it is in the Mediterranean?
Aug 05, 2023
Data, extreme weather and climate change
Jul 29, 2023
Ukraine war: A new way of calculating Russian deaths
Jul 22, 2023
Are more adult nappies sold in Japan than baby ones?
Jul 15, 2023
Does it take 10,000 litres of water to make a pair of jeans?
Jul 08, 2023
Immigration: A More or Less Special Programme
Jul 05, 2023
Will there be just 6 grandchildren for every 100 South Koreans?
Jul 01, 2023
Halving inflation, Scottish tidal power and have 1 in 3 women had an abortion?
Jun 28, 2023
US National Debt: is $32 trillion a big number?
Jun 24, 2023
Mortgages, birth rates and does space contribute 18% to UK GDP?
Jun 21, 2023
Is breastfeeding the key to exam success?
Jun 17, 2023
Electric vehicles, 600 million bottles and does oral sex cause cancer?
Jun 14, 2023
Counting Hunger in India
Jun 10, 2023
Lib Dem ambulance claims, affordable rent and goat meat
Jun 07, 2023
A short history of data
Jun 03, 2023
Food prices, net migration and beef about beef
May 31, 2023
Are young people more single than ever before?
May 28, 2023
NHS waiting lists, Voter ID and measuring divorce
May 24, 2023
Detecting Bad Science with Data
May 20, 2023
Do 94% of marriages in Portugal really end in divorce?
May 13, 2023
Why is life expectancy falling in the USA?
May 06, 2023
How much is the Coronation crown worth?
Apr 29, 2023
The Pentagon Leaks and Fox News
Apr 22, 2023
How accurate is baby's due date?
Apr 15, 2023
How to better understand and explain numbers
Apr 08, 2023
A groundbreaking new proof for Pythagoras’ Theorem?
Apr 01, 2023
Covid vaccines and false claims about miscarriage
Mar 25, 2023
Silicon Valley Bank: a very modern bank run
Mar 18, 2023
Do fungi kill three times as many people as malaria?
Mar 11, 2023
Does your jewellery contain stolen Brink’s-Mat gold?
Mar 04, 2023
UK vs European energy prices, falling excess deaths and is 5 grams of cocaine a lot?
Mar 01, 2023
Do 29,000 coffee pods really go to landfill every minute?
Feb 25, 2023
Reoffending rates, Welsh taxes and the menopause
Feb 22, 2023
Florence Nightingale and how she visualised data
Feb 18, 2023
Nurses' pay, ambulance times and forgotten female economists
Feb 15, 2023
Spreadsheet disasters
Feb 11, 2023
The IMF and the UK economy, NHS staff shortages and British vs English
Feb 08, 2023
Hannah Fry on using shopping data to detect ovarian cancer
Feb 04, 2023
Brexit and trade, pensioner millionaires and Hannah Fry on loyalty cards and cancer
Feb 01, 2023
Are wild mammals only 4% of the mammal population?
Jan 28, 2023
Coffee with the Chancellor, inflation measures, GP numbers and toilet paper
Jan 25, 2023
Does toilet paper cause 15% of global deforestation?
Jan 21, 2023
Ambulance response times, teacher pay and Irish pubs
Jan 18, 2023
How we shook the world of very large numbers
Jan 14, 2023
A&E delays and deaths, religious identity in N Ireland and naming the monster numbers
Jan 11, 2023
Can China's data on covid deaths be trusted?
Jan 07, 2023
Irish pubs - a global numbers game
Dec 31, 2022
Numbers of the Year 2022
Dec 24, 2022
Qatar World Cup: the pressure of penalties
Dec 17, 2022
Why are data so important in determining how we live?
Dec 10, 2022
The World Cup: how many migrant workers have died?
Dec 03, 2022
When do food shortages become a famine?
Nov 26, 2022
A $220 billion World Cup?
Nov 19, 2022
Bonus Episode: Understand the Economy
Nov 14, 2022
Improving the numbers in the news
Nov 12, 2022
Lula’s “zero deforestation” plan for the Amazon
Nov 05, 2022
Can China’s GDP data be trusted?
Oct 29, 2022
Do half of new books really sell fewer than twelve copies?
Oct 22, 2022
Ben Bernanke and the magic of banking
Oct 15, 2022
Catching Chess Cheats with Data
Oct 08, 2022
Teens and antidepressants, stamp duty savings and earthquake probabilities
Oct 07, 2022
NASA’s asteroid collision: how many asteroids are really out there?
Oct 01, 2022
Falling pound, the Queen’s funeral and is 0.5 on the Richter scale a big number?
Sep 28, 2022
Ukraine’s progress in numbers
Sep 24, 2022
Ukraine offensive, weak pound & how much do women really exercise
Sep 22, 2022
How bad is fashion for the environment?
Sep 17, 2022
Energy crisis plan, imperial measures survey, gardens v national parks
Sep 14, 2022
Is a third of Pakistan really under water?
Sep 10, 2022
Pakistan flooding, UK power prices and Boris’s broadband claim
Sep 07, 2022
Can we use maths to beat the robots?
Sep 03, 2022
Energy prices, excess deaths and the race to count to 200
Aug 31, 2022
Kenya’s Election Rounding Error
Aug 27, 2022
The numbers behind “natural” birth control
Aug 20, 2022
Is opinion polling broken?
Aug 13, 2022
Debunking the Liverpool FC Conspiracy Theory
Aug 06, 2022
How our world measures up
Jul 30, 2022
Does the World Athletics Championships have a false start problem?
Jul 23, 2022
Is Uganda about to become a middle income country?
Jul 16, 2022
Does it take 10,000 litres of water to make a pair of jeans?
Jul 09, 2022
How many American women will have an abortion in their lifetime?
Jul 02, 2022
Covid climb, childcare costs and why can’t the French count properly?
Jun 29, 2022
Ed Sheeran and the mathematics of musical coincidences
Jun 25, 2022
Rail strikes, tyre pollution and sex statistics
Jun 22, 2022
How often do people have sex?
Jun 18, 2022
Maternity litigation, stars, bees and windowless planes
Jun 15, 2022
Hannah Fry: Understanding the numbers of cancer
Jun 11, 2022
Employment puzzle, pyramids and triplets
Jun 08, 2022
Are girls starting puberty earlier?
Jun 04, 2022
Jubilee costs, fuel poverty and imperial measures
Jun 01, 2022
Noisy Decisions
May 28, 2022
Germany’s excess deaths, Eurovision and teacher shortages
May 25, 2022
Are just 100 companies responsible for 71% of global emissions and how stressed are South Africans?
May 21, 2022
Did the WHO get some of its excess death estimates wrong?
May 14, 2022
Have the oceans become 30% more acidic?
May 07, 2022
Sweden’s polarising pandemic response
Apr 30, 2022
Understanding India through Data
Apr 23, 2022
Subitising and simplifying: how to better explain numbers
Apr 15, 2022
Did tea-drinking cut deaths in the Industrial Revolution?
Apr 09, 2022
Will the war in Ukraine cause a global wheat shortage?
Apr 02, 2022
Pizza and Nuclear War
Mar 20, 2022
Does the UK take in more refugees than other European countries?
Mar 13, 2022
Numbers in Ukraine and low seas in Chagos
Mar 06, 2022
Troop and Casualty Numbers in Ukraine
Mar 02, 2022
Did lockdowns save any lives?
Feb 27, 2022
Vaccinating children, lockdowns, and ebikes
Feb 23, 2022
Hospitalisation rates for children with Covid
Feb 20, 2022
Questioning claims about Covid and children
Feb 16, 2022
Testosterone and sport
Feb 13, 2022
The prime minister in statistical bother
Feb 09, 2022
Can you fool your brain?
Feb 06, 2022
Does the UK have the fastest growing economy in the G7?
Feb 02, 2022
Fertility rates: baby boom or bust?
Jan 30, 2022
Should you follow the 5 second rule? And does inflation hit the poorest harder?
Jan 26, 2022
Are female patients more likely to die if the surgeon is male?
Jan 23, 2022
Are women 32% more likely to die after operation by a male surgeon?
Jan 19, 2022
QAnon: Did 365,348 children go missing in the US in 2020?
Jan 16, 2022
Omicron, pandemic birth rates and boosters
Jan 12, 2022
How much plastic is in the Ocean and can Mr Beast make a difference?
Jan 09, 2022
Will the population of Nigeria be larger than Europe’s?
Jan 02, 2022
Numbers of 2021
Dec 26, 2021
The psychological economics of gift giving
Dec 19, 2021
Does catching covid give you more immunity than being vaccinated?
Dec 12, 2021
Does wearing a mask halve your chances of getting Covid-19?
Dec 05, 2021
Simpson’s Paradox: How to make vaccinated death figures misleading
Nov 28, 2021
A TikTok tale
Nov 21, 2021
The carbon cost of breakfast at COP26
Nov 14, 2021
Same data, opposite results. Can we trust research?
Nov 07, 2021
The art of counting
Oct 31, 2021
The numbers behind Squid Game
Oct 24, 2021
The prize-winning economics of migration and the minimum wage
Oct 17, 2021
Bonus episode: the first ever More or Less
Oct 07, 2021
Twenty years of More or Less
Oct 06, 2021
The Gender Pay Gap
Oct 03, 2021
Is it easy being green?
Sep 29, 2021
Covid trends, face mask use, and the universal credit cut
Sep 22, 2021
How many holes are there in a drinking straw?
Sep 19, 2021
Death, Tax and Dishwashers
Sep 15, 2021
Vaccine waning, hot dogs and Afghanistan
Sep 08, 2021
The Bill for Afghanistan
Sep 04, 2021
Covid, HGV driver shortages and protest costs
Sep 01, 2021
Reason, numbers and Mr Spock
Aug 28, 2021
The extraordinary life of Robert Moses
Aug 21, 2021
How good were the performances at the Tokyo Olympics?
Aug 16, 2021
Jab fears explained: a base rate fallacy
Aug 07, 2021
Breaking Climate Records
Jul 31, 2021
The Rise of Delta
Jul 24, 2021
The Freedom Day Gamble
Jul 19, 2021
Are there 40 million Nigerians on Twitter?
Jul 10, 2021
Is Ivermectin a Covid ‘wonder drug’?
Jul 03, 2021
Scotland cases, flood risk and taxing the poor
Jun 30, 2021
Maths and the Mayflower
Jun 26, 2021
Delta cases, blue tits and that one-in-two cancer claim
Jun 23, 2021
The origins of Covid
Jun 19, 2021
Covid deaths, outdoor swimming and care homes
Jun 16, 2021
The doubling of life-expectancy
Jun 12, 2021
Third wave fears, smart motorways and bra sizes
Jun 09, 2021
Bolton vaccines, Yorkshire versus Scotland and the average gamer
Jun 02, 2021
The Seaspiracy “virtually empty ocean” claim
May 29, 2021
Wales jab success, Eurovision and living with your parents
May 26, 2021
The medical trial that proved Trump wrong
May 22, 2021
Explaining maths without Numbers
May 15, 2021
Finding Mexico City’s real death toll
May 08, 2021
Bayes: the clergyman whose maths changed the world
May 02, 2021
Will 2021 have more Covid deaths than 2020?
Apr 24, 2021
How many swimming pools full of vaccine do we need?
Apr 17, 2021
Clot risks: The Pill versus the vaccine
Apr 10, 2021
Too fast for Minecraft?
Apr 04, 2021
In praise of Covid Data
Mar 27, 2021
Deciding when to suspend a vaccine
Mar 20, 2021
The truth about obesity and Covid 19
Mar 13, 2021
Sainthood and Cup draws
Mar 06, 2021
Why are US Covid cases falling?
Feb 27, 2021
Covid 19 death count: which countries are faring worst?
Feb 20, 2021
Comparing death counts, Lock Down drinking and Long Covid
Feb 17, 2021
How much Covid in the World?
Feb 13, 2021
Brexit exports, cladding and are 1 in 5 disabled?
Feb 10, 2021
Glasgow vs Rwanda
Feb 06, 2021
Teachers, Test & Trace and Butterflies
Feb 03, 2021
The Rapid Test Row
Jan 30, 2021
Deaths at Home, Supermarket Infections and the Cobra Effect
Jan 27, 2021
Deaths at home, supermarket infections and the Cobra effect
Jan 27, 2021
Counting Covid’s impact on GDP
Jan 23, 2021
Will the vaccine bring back normal life? GDP and Fishing
Jan 20, 2021
How effective is one dose of the vaccine?
Jan 14, 2021
Ants and Algorithms
Jan 09, 2021
Numbers of the year: Part two
Jan 08, 2021
Numbers of the year: Part one
Jan 08, 2021
The economics of a Covid Christmas
Dec 19, 2020
QAnon: Child runaways and trafficking numbers debunked
Dec 12, 2020
Vaccines: how safe and who gets it?
Dec 05, 2020
Tracking Covid 19
Nov 28, 2020
Inviting Covid for Dinner
Nov 21, 2020
Vaccine numbers
Nov 14, 2020
How deadly is Covid 19?
Nov 07, 2020
Asymptomatic Covid19 Cases
Oct 31, 2020
US election: facts or fiction
Oct 24, 2020
Auction Theory - Paul Milgrom and Robert Wilson
Oct 17, 2020
A short history of probability
Oct 10, 2020
Spreadsheet snafu, ‘Long Covid’ quantified, and the birth of probability
Oct 07, 2020
“Record” Covid cases, Trump on the death count, and ant pheromones
Sep 30, 2020
Covid curve queried, false positives, and the Queen’s head
Sep 23, 2020
The magical maths of pool testing
Sep 19, 2020
Covid testing capacity, refugee numbers, and mascara
Sep 16, 2020
Covid cases rising, a guide to life’s risks, and racing jelly-fish
Sep 09, 2020
Schools and coronavirus, test and trace, maths and reality
Sep 02, 2020
Covid plasma therapy
Aug 26, 2020
A-level algorithms, poker and buses
Aug 19, 2020
Belarus’ contested election
Aug 15, 2020
Hawaiian Pizza, obesity and a second wave?
Aug 12, 2020
Melting Antarctic ice
Aug 08, 2020
Covid in Africa
Aug 01, 2020
Data in the time of cholera
Jul 25, 2020
Covid misconceptions and US deaths
Jul 18, 2020
Sweden’s lockdown lite
Jul 11, 2020
Why Trump is wrong about the USA’s coronavirus case comeback
Jul 04, 2020
Why did the UK have such a bad Covid-19 epidemic?
Jul 01, 2020
A new Covid-19 drug and a second wave
Jun 27, 2020
Child Poverty, School Inequality and a Second Wave
Jun 24, 2020
Who Should be Quarantined?
Jun 20, 2020
Quarantine, Test and Trace and BODMAS
Jun 17, 2020
Antibody tests, early lockdown advice and European deaths
Jun 10, 2020
Keep your distance
Jun 06, 2020
False negatives, testing capacity and pheasants
Jun 03, 2020
Obeying lockdown, flight arrivals and is this wave of the epidemic waning?
May 27, 2020
60 Harvests and statistically savvy parrots
May 23, 2020
School re-opening, Germany’s Covid-19 success and statistically savvy parrots
May 20, 2020
Social Distancing and Government Borrowing
May 16, 2020
Vitamin D, explaining R and the 2 metre rule
May 13, 2020
Covid-19 fatality rate
May 09, 2020
Testing truth, fatality rates, obesity risk and trampolines.
May 06, 2020
Climate change and birdsong
May 02, 2020
Ethnic minority deaths, climate change and lockdown
Apr 29, 2020
Comparing countries' coronavirus performance
Apr 25, 2020
Bonus Podcast: Professor John Horton Conway
Apr 23, 2020
Comparing countries, the risk to NHS staff, and birdsong
Apr 22, 2020
Superforecasting the Coronavirus
Apr 18, 2020
Should you wear a face mask?
Apr 11, 2020
Coronavirus deaths, face masks and a potential baby boom
Apr 08, 2020
Are more men dying from coronavirus?
Apr 04, 2020
Supermarket stockpiling, A-level results and Covid-19 gender disparity
Mar 31, 2020
The Risk
Mar 28, 2020
Coronavirus Special
Mar 25, 2020
Mitigation or Suppression: What’s best to tackle Coronavirus?
Mar 21, 2020
The mystery of Iran’s coronavirus numbers
Mar 14, 2020
How much heat do you lose from your head?
Mar 09, 2020
Netflix vs the environment
Feb 29, 2020
More or Less: Superforecasting, wood burning stoves and the real story of Hidden Figures
Feb 28, 2020
Artificial (not so) Intelligence
Feb 22, 2020
WS More or Less: Coronavirus - The Numbers
Feb 15, 2020
Coronavirus, jam, AI and tomatoes
Feb 14, 2020
WS More or Less: How fast are Alligators and Hippos?
Feb 08, 2020
Tracking terror suspects
Feb 07, 2020
WS More or Less: Coronavirus
Feb 01, 2020
Coronavirus, emotions and guns.
Jan 31, 2020
WS More or Less: Dozy Science
Jan 25, 2020
Netflix and Chill
Jan 24, 2020
WS More or Less: Japan’s 99% Conviction Rate
Jan 18, 2020
Weighing the Cost of Brexit
Jan 17, 2020
WS More or Less: Bushfire mystery
Jan 11, 2020
Australian Animal Deaths, Carbon Emissions, Election Mystery
Jan 10, 2020
C-sections and sharks
Jan 04, 2020
Presidential candidates and dementia
Dec 28, 2019
The Simpsons and maths
Dec 20, 2019
Koalas
Dec 13, 2019
Election Special (2/2)
Dec 10, 2019
Tree Planting Pledges
Dec 06, 2019
Election Special 1/2
Dec 03, 2019
Testing tomatoes
Nov 29, 2019
The world’s busiest shipping lanes
Nov 23, 2019
Bolivia: Can statistics help detect electoral fraud?
Nov 15, 2019
Reducing your risk of death
Nov 09, 2019
Unbelievable: The forgotten rape data
Nov 01, 2019
Edith Abbott and crime statistics
Oct 28, 2019
Esther Duflo and women in economics
Oct 18, 2019
The Extra Episode: Minimum wage, drinking in Scotland and identical twins.
Oct 11, 2019
WS More or Less: Does San Francisco have more rough sleepers than Britain?
Oct 07, 2019
New hospitals promised, aid to Ukraine, and bacon sandwiches
Oct 04, 2019
WS More or Less: Who fought in World War 1?
Sep 30, 2019
Austerity Deaths, C-Sections and being struck by lightning
Sep 27, 2019
WS More or Less: Peaty v. Bolt: Which is the greatest world record?
Sep 23, 2019
Dementia, inflation and shark deaths
Sep 20, 2019
WS More or Less: Cape Town murders
Sep 16, 2019
Maternal deaths, taxi driver earnings and statistical pop music
Sep 13, 2019
WS More or Less: Deforestation in Brazil
Sep 09, 2019
Climate deaths, austerity and pet food
Sep 06, 2019
WS More or Less: Amazon forest fires
Sep 02, 2019
Amazon fires, state pension and American burgers
Aug 30, 2019
WS More or Less: Ethiopia’s 350m trees in a day
Aug 26, 2019
Exam grades, Chernobyl and Ethiopian trees
Aug 23, 2019
Mice and mind blowing maths
Aug 16, 2019
Immigrant Crime Rate in the US
Aug 09, 2019
The spread of fact-checking in Africa
Aug 02, 2019
Pregnancy prohibitions – the evidence
Jul 26, 2019
Missing women from drug trials
Jul 19, 2019
Zimbabwe’s economy: Are sanctions to blame?
Jul 19, 2019
Two World Cups: Football and Cricket
Jul 05, 2019
Is nuclear power actually safer than you think?
Jun 28, 2019
Questioning the Chernobyl disaster death count
Jun 21, 2019
WS More or Less: Dealing with the Numbers of Cancer
Jun 14, 2019
WS More or Less: The things we fail to see
Jun 10, 2019
Are married women flipping miserable?
Jun 07, 2019
WS More or Less: Volcanoes versus humans
Jun 03, 2019
Hay Festival Special
May 31, 2019
WS More or Less: Florence Nightingale – recognising the nurse statistician
May 27, 2019
Eurovision and fact-checking Naomi Wolf
May 24, 2019
Making music out of Money
May 20, 2019
Heart deaths, Organised crime and Gender data gaps
May 17, 2019
Sex Every Seven Seconds
May 13, 2019
Sex, coal, missing people and mice
May 10, 2019
Avengers - Should we reverse the snap?
May 06, 2019
Nurses, flatmates and cats
May 03, 2019
Bernie Sanders and the cost of having a baby
Apr 29, 2019
Hottest Easter, Insects, Scottish villages
Apr 26, 2019
The economic impact of mega sporting events
Apr 19, 2019
Where is Scotland’s highest village?
Apr 15, 2019
Rounding up the weed killer cancer conundrum
Apr 08, 2019
Chess cheats and the GOAT
Apr 02, 2019
Is Mansa Musa the richest person of all time?
Mar 25, 2019
Day light saving time and heart attacks
Mar 18, 2019
The gender gap in tech
Mar 09, 2019
Insectageddon
Mar 04, 2019
How To Make Your Art Work More Valuable
Feb 22, 2019
WS More or Less: When maths mistakes really matter
Feb 18, 2019
Climate Change, Victorian Diseases, Alcohol
Feb 15, 2019
WS More or Less: From the archives: Groundhogs and Kings
Feb 12, 2019
Teen Suicide; Brexit Business Moves; Wood-Burner Pollution
Feb 08, 2019
WS More or Less: You have 15,000 likes!
Feb 04, 2019
Holocaust Deniers; Venezuelan Hyperinflation; Tinder Likes
Feb 01, 2019
WS More or Less: Is Suicide Seasonal?
Jan 26, 2019
Domestic Violence, Jobs, Easter Snowfall
Jan 25, 2019
WS More or Less: Close Encounters of a Planetary Kind
Jan 19, 2019
Intersex Numbers, Fact-Checking Facebook, Jack Bogle
Jan 18, 2019
WS More or Less: The Mathematics of Fever
Jan 12, 2019
Sugar, Outdoors Play and Planets
Jan 11, 2019
WS More or Less: Numbers of the Year Part 2
Jan 04, 2019
WS More or Less: Numbers of the Year Part 1
Dec 29, 2018
WS More or Less: Mission Impossible - Quantifiying Santa
Dec 22, 2018
WS More or Less: Dam Lies and Statistics
Dec 17, 2018
WS More or Less: Sex and Heart Attacks
Nov 30, 2018
WS More or Less: Are 90% of War Fatalities Civilians?
Nov 23, 2018
WS More or Less: When’s a Kilogram Not a Kilogram?
Nov 16, 2018
WS More or Less: Do Assassinations Work?
Nov 09, 2018
WS More or Less: Vaccines - The importance of the herd and social media
Oct 28, 2018
WS More or Less: Foreign Aid: Who’s the most generous?
Oct 19, 2018
WS More or Less: Paul Romer and William Nordhaus’ Big Ideas
Oct 12, 2018
Loneliness, School Funding, Same-Sex Divorce
Oct 09, 2018
WS More or Less: Why are Lesbians More Likely to Divorce than Gay Men?
Oct 07, 2018
Loneliness; School Funding; Same-Sex Divorce.
Oct 05, 2018
WS More of Less: Surviving the Battle of Britain
Oct 01, 2018
Surviving the Battle of Britain; the World Cup and Domestic Violence; Buckfast and Arrests in Scotland
Sep 28, 2018
WS More or Less: Trump and the Puerto Rico Death Toll
Sep 24, 2018
How Many Schoolchildren are Carers? Shareholder Income, and Museum Visitors Vs Football Fans
Sep 21, 2018
WS More or Less: DNA - Are You More Chimp or Neanderthal?
Sep 17, 2018
Male suicide, school ratings, are female tennis players treated unfairly by umpires?
Sep 14, 2018
WS More or Less: The Safest Car in the World?
Sep 10, 2018
Heart Age Calculator; Danish Sperm Imports; Counting Goats
Sep 07, 2018
WS: More or Less - How well do you understand your world?
Sep 03, 2018
African Trade Tariffs; Alcohol Safe Limits; President Trump's Popularity
Aug 31, 2018
BONUS PODCAST: Economics with Subtitles - Coffins Full of Car Keys
Aug 29, 2018
WS: More or Less - Automated fact-checking
Aug 27, 2018
A no-frills life, automated fact-checking and Lord-of-the-Rings maths
Aug 24, 2018
BONUS PODCAST: Economics with Subtitles - How Condoms Can Cost a Week’s Wages
Aug 22, 2018
WS More or Less: Are Wildfires Really Burning More Land?
Aug 20, 2018
BONUS PODCAST: Economics with Subtitles - Bracelets for Bullets
Aug 15, 2018
Numbers Behind a Tweetstorm
Aug 10, 2018
BONUS PODCAST: Economics with Subtitles - How Buying Cocaine Helps the Government
Aug 08, 2018
Carbs, Sugar and the Truth
Aug 03, 2018
Getting Creative with Statistics
Jul 27, 2018
Should we have smaller families to save the planet?
Jul 23, 2018
How to Cycle Really Fast
Jul 20, 2018
Are there more stars than grains of beach sand?
Jul 06, 2018
Running at the World Cup
Jun 29, 2018
How many words do you need to speak a language?
Jun 22, 2018
FIFA World Cup Extravaganza
Jun 15, 2018
WS More or Less: How Many Animals are Born Every Day?
Jun 10, 2018
Infant Mortality, How to Reduce Exam Revision With Maths, London’s Murder Rate
Jun 08, 2018
Counting Rough Sleepers
Jun 04, 2018
The High Street, Home Births and Harry Potter Wizardry
Jun 01, 2018
WS More or Less: Australia Calling
May 28, 2018
Forecasting rain, teabags and voter ID trials
May 25, 2018
WS More or Less: James Comey - Basketball Superstar?
May 21, 2018
Poverty, Progress 8 and how green is grass?
May 18, 2018
WS More or Less: Tulipmania mythology
May 14, 2018
Abortion, modern slavery, math versus maths
May 11, 2018
WS More or Less: Exposing the biases we have of the world
May 07, 2018
Cancer screening, the Windrush Generation, Audiograms
May 04, 2018
WS More or Less: Puerto Rico - statistics versus politics
Apr 29, 2018
Straws, women on boards, plus animals born each day
Apr 27, 2018
WS More or Less: How Should We Think About Spending?
Apr 20, 2018
WS More More or Less: Are We Breathing Unsafe Air?
Apr 13, 2018
WS More or Less: Why London’s Murder Rate is Being Compared to New York’s
Apr 08, 2018
WS More or Less: How Deadly Was 1920s Melbourne?
Mar 29, 2018
Were ‘extra’ votes counted in Russia’s presidential election?
Mar 23, 2018
Factchecking Trump on Trade
Mar 16, 2018
WS More or Less: Sir Roger Bannister
Mar 09, 2018
WS More or Less: Women, the Oscars and the Bechdel Test
Mar 05, 2018
WS More or Less: The Winter Olympics
Feb 25, 2018
WS More or Less: Debunking guide – on a postcard
Feb 18, 2018
UN rape claims, Stalin and Mr Darcy
Feb 16, 2018
WS More or Less: Has Russian Drinking Fallen by 80% in five years?
Feb 11, 2018
The Dow, Tampons, Parkrun part II
Feb 09, 2018
WS More or Less: Is China On Track to End Poverty by 2020?
Feb 05, 2018
Transgender Numbers, Parkrun and Snooker
Feb 02, 2018
Is the US Census Under Threat?
Jan 29, 2018
A Girl's First Time, Shark's Stomachs, Prime numbers
Jan 26, 2018
WS More or Less: Real Lives Behind the Numbers
Jan 22, 2018
Gender Pay Gaps and How to Learn a Language
Jan 19, 2018
WS More or Less: How Louis Bachelier Scooped Economists by Half a Century
Jan 15, 2018
Missed appointments, graduate pay, plus cocaine on bank notes
Jan 12, 2018
WS More or Less: Just how rare is a hole-in-one?
Jan 07, 2018
More or Less: Statistics of the Year 2017
Dec 31, 2017
WS More or Less: Will Bitcoin use more electricity than the United States?
Dec 24, 2017
WS More or Less: Diet Coke Habit; 'Contained' Wildfires
Dec 18, 2017
WS More or Less: Does Eating Chocolate Make Your Brain Younger?
Dec 11, 2017
WS More or Less: Just how lucky are regular lottery winners?
Dec 04, 2017
WS More or Less: How Rich was Jane Austen’s Mr Darcy?
Nov 26, 2017
How expensive is Italy's World Cup failure?
Nov 17, 2017
WS More or Less: Why Albums are Getting Longer
Nov 12, 2017
WS More or Less: Do Nigerian lawmakers get $1.7m and do Yams cause twins?
Nov 05, 2017
WS More or Less: Novelists in numbers
Oct 30, 2017
WS More or Less: Are US millennials more politically engaged online?
Oct 20, 2017
How Richard Thaler changed Economics
Oct 13, 2017
WS More or Less: Kilobyte to Brontobyte
Oct 10, 2017
WS More or Less: Big polluters - ships versus cars
Oct 02, 2017
Uber; EU passports; counting domestic violence
Sep 29, 2017
WS More or Less: Sperm - Are we going extinct?
Sep 25, 2017
Statistics abuse, tuition fees and beer in 1887
Sep 22, 2017
WS More or Less: How to measure a Hurricane
Sep 15, 2017
Are Natural Disasters on the Rise?
Sep 15, 2017
WS More or Less: More Horses than Tanks?
Sep 11, 2017
Electric cars, school-ready and feedback
Sep 08, 2017
One in 500 Year Storm
Sep 04, 2017
Grenfell Tower's Death Toll
Sep 01, 2017
Fantasy Football - How to win
Aug 28, 2017
A-levels, drowning and dress sizes
Aug 25, 2017
The Trump Bump
Aug 20, 2017
Are there 15,000 transgender people serving in the US military?
Aug 14, 2017
Why is Kenya’s election so expensive?
Aug 07, 2017
More boys than girls in Sweden?
Jul 31, 2017
Maryam Mirzakhani – A Genius of Maths
Jul 24, 2017
Calling the shots at Wimbledon
Jul 17, 2017
Is Steph Curry cheap and how random is random?
Jul 10, 2017
In Search of Woodall Primes
Jun 30, 2017
How rare are deadly tower block fires?
Jun 26, 2017
Trumpton Extra
Jun 21, 2017
Post-Election Special
Jun 19, 2017
WS More or Less: Are African football players more likely to die on the field?
Jun 12, 2017
UK Election extra
Jun 07, 2017
WS More or Less: Samba, strings and the story of HIV
Jun 05, 2017
Election Special: Tax, borders and climate
Jun 02, 2017
WS More or Less: Have 65% of future jobs not yet been invented?
May 28, 2017
Spies, care homes, and ending sneak peeks
May 26, 2017
WS More or Less: Uganda’s refugees
May 22, 2017
Tax, speed dating and sea ice
May 19, 2017
Nurses' pay, Scottish seats, Penalty shootouts
May 13, 2017
WS More or Less: Is my Baby a Giant?
May 12, 2017
WS More or Less: An urban maze
May 08, 2017
Is Crime Rising?
May 05, 2017
WS More or Less: The Maths of Dating
May 01, 2017
Fact-checking Boris Johnson
Apr 28, 2017
WS More or Less: The death rate of white Americans – What’s going on?
Apr 21, 2017
Living standards and Kate Bush maths
Apr 21, 2017
WS More or Less: The Ignorance Test
Apr 14, 2017
Economics of Overbooking
Apr 14, 2017
WS More or Less: Could North Korea Wipe out 90% of Americans?
Apr 10, 2017
WS More or Less: Will one in four people develop a mental health problem?
Mar 31, 2017
WS More Or Less: Baby Boxes – are they really saving infant’s lives?
Mar 24, 2017
More or Less: The concrete facts about Trump’s wall and China
Mar 17, 2017
WS More or Less: The Attention Span of a Goldfish
Mar 10, 2017
WS More or Less: Why are Hollywood actresses paid less than men?
Mar 03, 2017
WS More or Less: What happened last night in Sweden?
Feb 24, 2017
Hidden Figures: The Real Story
Feb 17, 2017
WS More or Less: Hans Rosling - the extraordinary life of a statistical guru
Feb 13, 2017
WS More or Less: Is democracy failing in America?
Feb 03, 2017
WS More or Less: Counting Crowds
Jan 27, 2017
WS More or Less: Why January makes us want to scream
Jan 20, 2017
WS More or Less: Christian Martyrs
Jan 13, 2017
WS More or Less: Should we really be drinking eight glasses of water a day?
Jan 06, 2017
WS More or Less: Does Sweden Really Have a Six Hour Day?
Jan 03, 2017
The Haber-Bosch Process
Dec 28, 2016
WS More or Less: Life, death and data
Dec 26, 2016
Christmas Quiz
Dec 23, 2016
WS More or Less: Yellow cards for Christmas
Dec 16, 2016
Have more famous people died this year?
Dec 16, 2016
WS More or Less: How risky is the contraceptive pill?
Dec 12, 2016
How wrong were the Brexit forecasts?
Dec 09, 2016
WS More or Less: How not to test public opinion
Dec 02, 2016
Are you related to Edward III - and Danny Dyer?
Dec 02, 2016
WS More or Less: Good news on renewables?
Nov 28, 2016
Pensioners aren't poor anymore
Nov 25, 2016
WS More or Less: Avoiding Asteroids
Nov 21, 2016
Is dementia the number one killer?
Nov 18, 2016
WS More or Less: Liberia’s Rape Statistic Debunked
Nov 14, 2016
US election, stray cats and puzzles
Nov 11, 2016
WS More or Less: Ice Cream versus aid
Nov 07, 2016
Trump tells the Truth
Nov 04, 2016
WS More or Less: Child Marriage, Dangerous Algorithms
Oct 28, 2016
WS More or Less: Escobar’s Cocaine Deaths
Oct 24, 2016
WS More or Less: Algorithms, Crime and Punishment
Oct 14, 2016
WS More or Less: The Sustainable Development Goals – are there just too many?
Oct 07, 2016
WS More or Less: Who Won the US Presidential Debate?
Sep 30, 2016
WS More or Less: Trump’s crime claims
Sep 23, 2016
WS More or Less: Wedding gift economics
Sep 18, 2016
WS More or Less: Drug deaths in the Philippines
Sep 12, 2016
WS More or Less: Menstrual Syncing
Sep 05, 2016
Irish Passports
Sep 02, 2016
Death Penalty abolition
Aug 30, 2016
Gender Pay Gap
Aug 26, 2016
WS More or Less: Counting Terror Deaths
Aug 22, 2016
Counting Terror Deaths
Aug 19, 2016
WS More or Less: Swimming World Records
Aug 15, 2016
Grammar Schools
Aug 12, 2016
WS More or Less: Predicting Olympic Medals
Aug 08, 2016
Plastic Bags
Aug 05, 2016
WS More or Less: Odd Socks and Algorithms
Aug 01, 2016
The Supermarket Effect
Jul 29, 2016
WS More or Less: Ireland’s Shock GDP figures
Jul 22, 2016
WS More or Less: Violence, shootings and the police in the US
Jul 15, 2016
WS More or Less: Sleeping: the 8-hour myth
Jul 08, 2016
Ranking Iceland’s Football Team
Jul 01, 2016
WS More or Less: Brexit Economics
Jun 24, 2016
WS More or Less: When Companies Track Your Life
Jun 20, 2016
The Referendum by Numbers: Trade
Jun 17, 2016
The Referendum by Numbers: Regulation
Jun 16, 2016
The Referendum by Numbers: Law
Jun 15, 2016
The Referendum by Numbers: Immigration
Jun 14, 2016
The Referendum by Numbers: The Cost of EU Membership
Jun 13, 2016
WS More or Less: Sexist Data Crisis
Jun 10, 2016
WS More or Less: HIV in Africa
Jun 03, 2016
WS More or Less: Refugee Camp Statistics
May 27, 2016
WS More or Less: The World's Most Profitable Product
May 20, 2016
WS More or Less: The world’s most diverse city
May 13, 2016
WS More or Less: Leicester City football fluke?
May 09, 2016
The most profitable product in history
May 06, 2016
WS More or Less: Simpson’s Paradox
May 02, 2016
EU Migration
Apr 29, 2016
WS More or Less: Most Expensive Building
Apr 25, 2016
Brexit numbers
Apr 22, 2016
WS More or Less: The life expectancy of a Pope
Apr 18, 2016
Celebrity deaths
Apr 15, 2016
WS More or Less: The story of average
Apr 11, 2016
Fathers and babies
Apr 08, 2016
WS More or Less: The Great EU Cabbage Myth
Apr 05, 2016
The Great EU Cabbage Myth
Apr 04, 2016
WSMoreOrLess: Safe drinking
Mar 24, 2016
WSMoreOrLess: Mobiles or lightbulbs
Mar 18, 2016
WSMoreOrLess: Can we trust food surveys?
Mar 11, 2016
WSMoreOrLess: Fact checking The Big Short
Mar 04, 2016
WSMoreOrLess: Antibiotics and the problem of the broken market
Feb 26, 2016
WSMoreOrLess: When £10,000 isn’t a good incentive
Feb 19, 2016
WSMoreOrLess: Fishy numbers?
Feb 15, 2016
Selfies, sugar daddies and dodgy surveys
Feb 12, 2016
WSMoreOrLess: Do e-cigarettes really harm your chances of quitting smoking?
Feb 08, 2016
E-cigarettes: Can They Help People Quit?
Feb 05, 2016
Swedish refugees
Feb 01, 2016
How harmful is alcohol?
Jan 29, 2016
WSMoreOrLess: Oxfam and Wealth Inequality
Jan 25, 2016
Billionaires versus the world
Jan 22, 2016
WS MoreOrLess: Gravitational Waves
Jan 18, 2016
Weekend Stroke Deaths
Jan 15, 2016
WS MoreOrLess: Numbers of the Year 2015: Part Three
Jan 11, 2016
Flood Defence Spending
Jan 08, 2016
WSMoreOrLess: Numbers of the Year 2015 Part 2
Jan 04, 2016
Numbers of the Year 2015
Jan 01, 2016
WS MoreOrLess: Numbers of the Year 2015 Part 1
Dec 25, 2015
WS MoreOrLess: How Many Stormtroopers are there?
Dec 18, 2015
WS MoreOrLess:100 Year Floods?
Dec 11, 2015
WS MoreOrLess: Climate Change
Dec 08, 2015
WS MoreOrLess: '‘Sympathy’ for jihadis
Nov 27, 2015
WS MoreOrLess: Has Islamic State been Losing Territory?
Nov 20, 2015
WS MoreOrLess: Creativity and Mental Illness
Nov 13, 2015
WS MoreOrLess: China's One Child Policy
Nov 06, 2015
WS MoreOrLess: Processed Meat and Cancer
Oct 30, 2015
WS MoreOrLess: Oil
Oct 23, 2015
WS MoreOrLess: Foreign Aid: More Harm Than Good?
Oct 16, 2015
WS MoreOrLess: Are Tall People More Likely to Get Cancer?
Oct 09, 2015
WS MoreOrLess: Football’s Red Card Cliché
Oct 02, 2015
WS MoreOrLess: How Reliable is Psychology Science?
Sep 28, 2015
Alzheimers, Psychology science, John Conway, Red cards, Decimate
Sep 25, 2015
WS MoreOrLess: The Rise of the Giants?
Sep 21, 2015
Striking Numbers
Sep 18, 2015
WS MoreOrLess: How Many is Too Many Bananas?
Sep 14, 2015
Is it worth targetting non-voters?
Sep 11, 2015
Queuing Backwards
Sep 07, 2015
Fit for work or at deaths door?
Sep 04, 2015
WS MoreOrLess: China Stock Market Crash
Aug 31, 2015
China Stock Market Crash
Aug 28, 2015
WS MoreOrLess: The Elliptical Pool Table
Aug 24, 2015
Soaring diabetes - is there some good news?
Aug 21, 2015
WS More or Less: Worm wars
Aug 17, 2015
Migrant Crisis
Aug 14, 2015
WS More or Less: Wrestlers - dying too young?
Aug 07, 2015
WSMoreOrLess: Counting Foreign Fighters
Jul 31, 2015
WS MoreOrLess: Life Expectancy
Jul 24, 2015
WS MoreOrLess: Live 8, The G8 and Making Poverty History
Jul 17, 2015
Greece Special
Jul 10, 2015
Biggest Movies
Jun 26, 2015
WS MoreOrLess: Horoscope Health
Jun 19, 2015
WS MoreOrLess: Global Footprint
Jun 13, 2015
Obesity Projections, Global Footprint, Street Value of Drugs
Jun 12, 2015
WS MoreOrLess: Qatar migrant worker deaths
Jun 06, 2015
World Cup Migrant Deaths
Jun 05, 2015
WS MoreOrLess: John Nash
May 30, 2015
Seven-day NHS
May 29, 2015
WS MoreOrLess: Death Penalty
May 23, 2015
Female Drink Drivers
May 22, 2015
WS MoreOrLess: Big Numbers
May 16, 2015
Strokes, Teachers, Confused Computers 15 May15
May 15, 2015
WS MoreOrLess: Princess Charlotte
May 11, 2015
Election and Adultery Special
May 08, 2015
UK election podcast 4
May 06, 2015
WS MoreOrLess: Nuns on the rise
May 02, 2015
Polls, nuns and life partners
May 01, 2015
WS MoreOrLess: Xenophobia in South Africa
Apr 25, 2015
UK Election Podcast 3
Apr 24, 2015
WS MoreOrLess: Liver Transplant.
Apr 18, 2015
UK election podcast 2
Apr 17, 2015
UK election podcast 1
Apr 13, 2015
WS MoreOrLess: The Ignorance Test
Apr 11, 2015
WS MoreOrLess: Maths and Chess
Apr 03, 2015
WS MoreOrLess: How safe is flying?
Mar 28, 2015
Does Breastfeeding Increase IQ?
Mar 21, 2015
WS MoreOrLess: Measuring World Health
Mar 14, 2015
WS MoreOrLess: The future of food
Mar 07, 2015
WS MoreOrLess: Black prisoners in the US
Feb 28, 2015
WS MoreOrLess: Sleeping: the 8-hour myth
Feb 21, 2015
The mathematical secrets to relationships
Feb 14, 2015
WS MoreOrLess: Is strenuous jogging bad for you?
Feb 09, 2015
Is strenuous jogging bad for you?
Feb 06, 2015
WS MoreOrLess: The maths of dating
Feb 02, 2015
Cameron’s 1000 jobs
Jan 30, 2015
WS MoreOrLess: Global Wealth
Jan 26, 2015
Is anti-Semitism widespread in the UK?
Jan 23, 2015
WS MoreOrLess: Are 95% of Terrorism Victims Muslim?
Jan 19, 2015
How big are the Conservatives' planned cuts?
Jan 16, 2015
WS MoreOrLess: Bad Luck and Cancer
Jan 12, 2015
A&E waiting times
Jan 09, 2015
WS MoreOrLess: Numbers of the Year part 3.
Jan 04, 2015
Numbers of the Year 2014.
Jan 02, 2015
WS MoreOrLess: Numbers of the Year part 2.
Dec 27, 2014
WS MoreOrLess: Numbers of the Year part 1.
Dec 20, 2014
WS MoreOrLess: Soviet World War Deaths
Dec 13, 2014
WS MoreOrLess: Zimbabwe's Economy
Dec 06, 2014
Teenage Pregnancy
Nov 29, 2014
WS MoreOrLess: Caps off to Rooney
Nov 22, 2014
WS MoreOrLess: Pregnancy and Homicide
Nov 15, 2014
Tracking and Tackling Ebola
Nov 08, 2014
WS MoreOrLess: Kidney Donation
Nov 01, 2014
Screening for Ebola
Oct 25, 2014
WS MoreOrLess: Big Data
Oct 18, 2014
Species in Decline?
Oct 11, 2014
WS MoreOrLess: Will Berlin see a sub-two-hour marathon?
Oct 06, 2014
WS MoreOrLess: How do we calculate the distance to the sun?
Sep 29, 2014
The Barnett Formula
Sep 26, 2014
WS MoreOrLess: The UK vs Mississippi
Sep 22, 2014
Kidney donation: the chance of finding a match
Sep 19, 2014
Shakespeare vs Rappers
Sep 15, 2014
Scottish referendum polls
Sep 12, 2014
WS MoreOrLess: To ice or not to ice?
Sep 08, 2014
To ice or not to ice?
Sep 05, 2014
WS MoreOrLess: Do We Use Only 10% of Our Brains?
Sep 01, 2014
How Deadly Is Ebola?
Aug 29, 2014
WS MoreOrLess: Deaths in Gaza
Aug 25, 2014
Troubled families?
Aug 22, 2014
WS MoreOrLess: Anti-Semitism
Aug 18, 2014
Student Loans
Aug 15, 2014
WS MoreOrLess: Ebola
Aug 10, 2014
WS MoreOrLess: Fear of Flying
Aug 02, 2014
WS MoreOrLess: The prevalence of paedophilia?
Jul 26, 2014
WS MoreOrLess: The Tour de France
Jul 19, 2014
WS MoreOrLess: Golden Ticket
Jul 12, 2014
Will we die before our parents?
Jul 05, 2014
WS MoreOrLess: Is this the greatest world cup ever?
Jun 28, 2014
WS MoreOrLess: Money for nothing?
Jun 21, 2014
WS MoreOrLess: Heads Or Tails?
Jun 16, 2014
Faith and Charity?
Jun 13, 2014
WS MoreOrLess: 'Spurious Correlations'
Jun 09, 2014
What's Scottish Independence Worth?
Jun 06, 2014
WS MoreOrLess: The Piketty Affair
Jun 02, 2014
The Piketty Affair
May 30, 2014
WS MoreOrLess: Risk Savvy
May 26, 2014
Romanian Crime
May 23, 2014
WS MoreOrLess: Did global poverty halve overnight?
May 19, 2014
Tax Dodgers and Benefits Cheats
May 16, 2014
WS MoreOrLess: Brazil’s Maths Superstar
May 12, 2014
Food Bank Britain
May 09, 2014
Sir Roger Bannister's ‘impossible’ feat
May 05, 2014
British Law - Made in Brussels?
May 02, 2014
Killed for being female?
Apr 26, 2014
Magic Numbers
Apr 19, 2014
Nigeria - rich or poor?
Apr 12, 2014
Freedom in Numbers
Apr 05, 2014
Is London France’s sixth largest city?
Mar 29, 2014
Missing planes
Mar 22, 2014
Mailbox edition
Mar 15, 2014
WS MoreOrLess: Modern Slavery
Mar 08, 2014
The 10,000 hours rule
Mar 01, 2014
WS MoreOrLess: Neknomination Outbreak
Feb 22, 2014
Love by numbers
Feb 15, 2014
Rising drug overdose deaths
Feb 10, 2014
WS MoreOrLess: Immigration
Feb 03, 2014
The 50p tax rate
Jan 31, 2014
WS MoreOrLess: Alcohol risk
Jan 27, 2014
Immigration
Jan 24, 2014
WS MoreOrLess: An apple-a-day
Jan 20, 2014
Obesity crisis?
Jan 17, 2014
WS MoreOrLess: Counting the Dead in Iraq
Jan 13, 2014
The week that kills
Jan 10, 2014
WS MoreOrLess: The numbers of 2013 - part 2
Jan 04, 2014
Pension Charges
Jan 03, 2014
WS MoreOrLess: The numbers of 2013 - part 1
Dec 28, 2013
Numbers of the year
Dec 27, 2013
WS MoreOrLess: Wine shortage?
Dec 21, 2013
Britain's 80,000 homeless children
Dec 20, 2013
WS MoreOrLess: Genocide in South Africa?
Dec 14, 2013
WS MoreOrLess: Testing the PISA test
Dec 07, 2013
Football Ranking Mysteries Explained
Nov 30, 2013
WS MoreOrLess: Could statistics cure cancer?
Nov 23, 2013
WS MoreOrLess: Sachin Tendulkar - best batsman of all time?
Nov 16, 2013
WS MoreOrLess: Does politics make us get our sums wrong?
Nov 09, 2013
100,000 Christian martyrs?
Nov 02, 2013
WS MoreOrLess: Fertility - when is too late?
Oct 26, 2013
WS MoreOrLess: Nobel Prize puzzle
Oct 19, 2013
The Hawthorne Effect
Oct 12, 2013
WS MoreOrLess: Mosquitoes and elephants
Oct 07, 2013
Underage drinking
Oct 04, 2013
WS MoreOrLess: Population explosion?
Sep 30, 2013
NHS hospital deaths
Sep 27, 2013
Formula 1 racing risk
Sep 23, 2013
Do free school meals work?
Sep 20, 2013
Sexual violence statistics in Asia
Sep 16, 2013
Fertility: when is too late?
Sep 13, 2013
The death toll in Syria
Sep 09, 2013
The Death Toll in Syria
Sep 06, 2013
Counting climate migrants
Aug 31, 2013
What price the life of a badger?
Aug 30, 2013
Is coffee bad for you?
Aug 24, 2013
The magic of maths
Aug 17, 2013
Where could we fit the entire world’s population?
Aug 10, 2013
What is the most visited country in the world?
Aug 03, 2013
Chris Froome's Tour de France victory
Jul 27, 2013
Egypt: Biggest protest in history?
Jul 13, 2013
Sex and the world wide web
Jul 06, 2013
How long will you live?
Jun 29, 2013
Will 40% of the world's workforce really be in Africa by 2050?
Jun 22, 2013
Is a child dying of hunger every 15 seconds?
Jun 15, 2013
Sex on the Brain?
Jun 10, 2013
A&E, and the chances of having twins
Jun 07, 2013
The maths of spies and terrorists
Jun 03, 2013
The maths of spies and terrorists
May 31, 2013
Ryanair punctuality; mistakes in academic papers
May 27, 2013
The economics of Scottish independence
May 24, 2013
Angelina Jolie’s 87% cancer risk
May 20, 2013
Angelina Jolie’s 87% cancer risk
May 17, 2013
How old is your dog?
May 13, 2013
How much does the EU cost the UK? Plus, dog years
May 10, 2013
The Maths of Mozart and Birds
May 06, 2013
Birds, Mozart, austerity, Thatcher
May 03, 2013
Are Man Utd a one-man team?
Apr 27, 2013
Austerity: a spreadsheet error?
Apr 22, 2013
Thatcher in numbers
Apr 15, 2013
Communicating Risk
Apr 08, 2013
That's not much gold
Mar 30, 2013
Can big data save lives?
Mar 25, 2013
Are there more black men in college or prison in the US?
Mar 18, 2013
HIV in numbers
Mar 11, 2013
Is the Kenyan election already decided?
Mar 04, 2013
Counting Catholics
Feb 25, 2013
How many people support Manchester United?
Feb 18, 2013
The end of the Penny
Feb 11, 2013
A case of statistical significance in Greece
Feb 04, 2013
Fat or Fiction
Jan 28, 2013
WS MoreOrLess: Indian Farmer Suicides
Jan 21, 2013
Pop up economics
Jan 16, 2013
Food waste and Scrabble
Jan 14, 2013
The Parable of the Ox
Jan 07, 2013
The Parable of the Ox
Jan 04, 2013
Numbers of 2012
Dec 31, 2012
Numbers of 2012
Dec 28, 2012
Gun Statistics
Dec 24, 2012
Fact-checking US gun crime statistics
Dec 21, 2012
WS MoreOrLess: What is "rare"?
Dec 17, 2012
The Census and what does 'rare' mean?
Dec 14, 2012
World Service: Africa GDP & Royal twins
Dec 10, 2012
Radio 4: Royal Twins & Autumn Statement
Dec 07, 2012
More or Less: How reliable is Kevin Pietersen?
Dec 03, 2012
More or Less: Opinion polling, Kevin Pietersen, and stacking Lego
Nov 30, 2012
Fergie Time
Nov 26, 2012
Ash Die Back and Fergie Time
Nov 23, 2012
Brain Food and Bacteria
Nov 19, 2012
Voodoo polling? Predicting the US election
Nov 12, 2012
Is America’s conviction rate really 99.5%?
Nov 05, 2012
Predicting L'Aquila Earthquake: is it right to blame the scientists?
Oct 29, 2012
Life-saving economics
Oct 22, 2012
Predicting the global population
Oct 15, 2012
Predicting the Presidency
Oct 08, 2012
Plenty more fish in the sea?
Oct 01, 2012
Factchecking America
Sep 24, 2012
Investigating crime statistics
Sep 17, 2012
Where are the Paralympics Medals?
Sep 10, 2012
How to explain infinity to a 4-year-old
Sep 03, 2012
Are African leaders more likely to die in office?
Aug 27, 2012
Levelling the statistical playing field
Aug 20, 2012
The great playing field sell off?
Aug 17, 2012
How to lose money - fast!
Aug 13, 2012
How to lose money - fast!
Aug 10, 2012
How extraordinary is Ye Shiwen? WS
Aug 04, 2012
How extraordinary is Ye Shiwen?
Aug 03, 2012
Gun laws and gold medals (WS)
Jul 28, 2012
Gun laws and gold medals
Jul 27, 2012
Has clamping down on drugs made the Tour de France slower? (WS)
Jul 21, 2012
Has clamping down on drugs made the Tour de France slower?
Jul 20, 2012
Who are the Libor losers?
Jul 14, 2012
More or Less: Who are the Libor losers? (WS)
Jul 14, 2012
Drinks and drugs capital of the world? (WS)
Jul 06, 2012
Hit movies and killer birthdays (WS)
Jun 29, 2012
(WS) Weight of the world
Jun 23, 2012
(WS) Chance encounters
Jun 18, 2012
Interview with Daniel Kahneman
Jun 11, 2012
Counting images of The Queen. (WS)
Jun 04, 2012
Would firing staff 'at will' work? (R4)
May 28, 2012
The maths of infidelity (WS)
May 25, 2012
Where are the world hardest workers? (WS)
May 21, 2012
Troubled families and unneutered cats. (R4)
May 17, 2012
Trouble on the Greek railways (WS)
May 14, 2012
Are CEOs worth it? (R4)
May 11, 2012
A grand economic experiment? (WS)
May 04, 2012
Austerity, border queues and bank holidays (R4)
May 04, 2012
The formula that changed the world
Apr 27, 2012
The formula that changed the world
Apr 27, 2012
20 Apr 12
Apr 20, 2012
20 Apr 12
Apr 20, 2012
Eurostats - True or False?
Apr 13, 2012
Stamp prices and the first maths book
Apr 06, 2012
Do big football clubs win more penalties?
Mar 30, 2012
What is the world average salary?
Mar 23, 2012
Red meat death risk?
Mar 16, 2012
Is Apple worth more than Poland?
Mar 09, 2012
Less than a dollar a day
Mar 02, 2012
Syria poll and Europe’s work hours
Feb 24, 2012
Cybermetrics and Groundhog Day
Feb 17, 2012
Measuring famine
Feb 10, 2012
More alive than dead?
Feb 03, 2012
Sizing up cities
Jan 27, 2012
Climate bet; Africa Cup of Nations
Jan 20, 2012
Chavez's cancer claims
Jan 14, 2012
High speed rail
Jan 13, 2012
Using statistics in court
Jan 06, 2012
2011 in numbers
Dec 30, 2011
Who are the 1% and the 99%?
Dec 23, 2011
Higgs boson statistics
Dec 16, 2011
Supermarket price wars
Dec 09, 2011
Pensions, and the Eurozone crisis.
Dec 02, 2011
Brain Culture Part 3
Nov 29, 2011
Brain Culture Part 2
Nov 22, 2011
Brain Culture Part 1
Nov 15, 2011
Government waste
Sep 09, 2011
A Euro Debt Odyssey
Sep 02, 2011
Scottish Independence
Aug 26, 2011
Is salt bad for you?
Aug 19, 2011
The maths of rioting
Aug 12, 2011
US debt
Aug 05, 2011
Public Sector Pay
May 13, 2011
Climate Refugees
May 07, 2011
Wedding Stats
Apr 29, 2011
How useful is GDP?
Apr 22, 2011
Tuition fees
Apr 15, 2011
Youth Unemployment
Apr 08, 2011
Small spending cuts?
Apr 01, 2011
The Story of Economics 'Monsters'
Mar 30, 2011
The Story of Economics 'Cogs'
Mar 23, 2011
The Story of Economics 'Gods'
Mar 16, 2011
Health check
Jan 21, 2011
Street grooming
Jan 14, 2011
Big numbers
Jan 07, 2011
2010 in numbers
Dec 31, 2010
What the Dickens?
Dec 24, 2010
Council of despair
Dec 17, 2010
Degrees of Debt
Dec 10, 2010
Gay Britain
Oct 01, 2010
How welfare works
Sep 24, 2010
Who earns more?
Sep 17, 2010
Back to school
Sep 10, 2010
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Sep 03, 2010