More or Less Podcast
Tim Harford explains - and sometimes debunks - the numbers and statistics used in political debate, the news and everyday life.
Episodes to download
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Wales jab success, Eurovision and living with your parents
Wed 26 May 2021
How to vaccinate a country quickly, plus the UK’s singing contest woes.
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The medical trial that proved Trump wrong
Sat 22 May 2021
The Recovery Trial identified drugs that helped save lives.
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The medical trial that proved Trump wrong
Sat 22 May 2021
The Recovery Trial identified drugs that did and did not help save lives.
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Explaining maths without Numbers
Sat 15 May 2021
Tim Harford speaks to mathematician Milo Beckman about the beauty of maths.
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Finding Mexico City’s real death toll
Sat 8 May 2021
How two data detectives revealed the pandemic’s impact.
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Finding Mexico City’s real death toll
Sat 8 May 2021
How two amateur data detectives revealed the pandemic’s impact.
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Bayes: the clergyman whose maths changed the world
Sun 2 May 2021
How an obscure theory came into fashion.
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Bayes: the clergyman whose maths changed the world
Sat 1 May 2021
How an obscure theory came into fashion.
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Will 2021 have more Covid deaths than 2020?
Sat 24 Apr 2021
We ask if this year’s global death toll will surpass 1.8 million.
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Will 2021 have more Covid deaths than 2020?
Sat 24 Apr 2021
We ask if this year’s global death toll will surpass 1.8 million.
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How many swimming pools full of vaccine do we need
Sat 17 Apr 2021
Adding together the doses for everyone on the planet.
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How many swimming pools full of vaccine do we need?
Sat 17 Apr 2021
Adding together the doses for everyone on the planet.
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Clot risks: The Pill versus the vaccine
Sat 10 Apr 2021
AstraZeneca’s clot controversy turns attention on the contraceptive pill.
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Clot risks: The Pill versus the vaccine
Sat 10 Apr 2021
AstraZeneca’s clot controversy turns attention on the contraceptive pill.
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Too fast for Minecraft?
Sun 4 Apr 2021
Gamers raise suspicions over speed run times - are they right?
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Too fast for Minecraft?
Sat 3 Apr 2021
Gamers raise suspicions over speed run times - are they right?
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Deciding when to suspend a vaccine
Sat 20 Mar 2021
Weighing up the risk of unproven side effects with stopping Covid-19
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Deciding when to suspend a vaccine
Sat 20 Mar 2021
Weighing up the risk of unproven side effects with stopping Covid 19.
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The truth about obesity and Covid-19
Sat 13 Mar 2021
Are countries with higher obesity rates suffering from more deaths?
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The truth about obesity and Covid 19
Sat 13 Mar 2021
Are countries with higher obesity rates suffering from more deaths?
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Why are US Covid cases falling?
Sat 27 Feb 2021
From herd immunity to the weather, Tim Harford explores the theories
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Why are US Covid cases falling?
Sat 27 Feb 2021
From herd immunity to the weather, Tim Harford explores the theories.
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Covid 19 death count: Which countries are faring worst?
Sat 20 Feb 2021
Tim Harford finds out if we can trust international comparisons with the available data.
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Covid 19 death count: which countries are faring worst?
Sat 20 Feb 2021
Tim Harford finds out if we can trust international comparisons with the available data.
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Comparing death counts, Lock Down drinking and Long Covid
Wed 17 Feb 2021
Is the UK’s Covid-19 death count among the worst in the world?
Unlock the history and truth behind the data with The OU
Explore how numbers shape, and sometimes mislead us, with The Open University.
When can you trust statistics?
BBC Ideas discovers three easy ways to help make sense of statistics.
