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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The mystery of Iran’s coronavirus numbers
Sat 14 Mar 2020
Does Iran have a lot more covid-19 cases that its figures suggest?
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How much heat do you lose from your head?
Mon 9 Mar 2020
Is it true that 40% of your body's heat loss comes from your head?
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How much heat do you lose from your head?
Sat 7 Mar 2020
Is it true that 40% of your body's heat loss comes from your head?
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Netflix v the environment
Sat 29 Feb 2020
Does watching 30 minutes of Netflix have the same carbon footprint as driving four miles?
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Netflix vs the environment
Sat 29 Feb 2020
Does watching 30 minutes of Netflix have the same carbon footprint as driving four miles?
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More or Less: Superforecasting, wood burning stoves and the real story of Hidden Figures
Fri 28 Feb 2020
Dipping into the archive for stories on the art of prediction and wood burner pollution
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WS More or Less: Coronavirus - The Numbers
Sat 15 Feb 2020
An update on Covid-19 statistics, with Tim Harford.
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Coronavirus, jam, AI and tomatoes
Fri 14 Feb 2020
Covid-19 stats, spreading jam far and wide, cooking with AI, and James Wong on vegetables
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How fast are alligators and hippos?
Sat 8 Feb 2020
Can alligators run at 50kmph? Join us in clocking alligators’ gaits
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WS More or Less: How fast are Alligators and Hippos?
Sat 8 Feb 2020
Can alligators run at 50kmph? Join us in clocking alligators’ gaits.
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Tracking Terror Suspects
Fri 7 Feb 2020
Costing counter-terrorism, interrogating tomatoes, the UK's reading age, politics and GDP
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Coronavirus, emotions and guns
Fri 31 Jan 2020
Numbers that matter in measuring outbreaks, smelly stats around scent and more.
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Netflix and Chill
Fri 24 Jan 2020
The carbon consequence of streaming, stats on sepsis and stretching Bill Bryson to Pluto
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WS More or Less: Japan’s 99% Conviction Rate
Sat 18 Jan 2020
Quantifying justice in Japan with Tim Harford.
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Weighing the Cost of Brexit
Fri 17 Jan 2020
Quantifying justice in Japan, the cost of Brexit, alligator speed and Liverpool FC's luck
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WS More or Less: Bushfire mystery
Sat 11 Jan 2020
Have a billion animals died in Australia’s fires? And which ones are likely to survive?
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Australian Animal Deaths, Carbon Emissions, Election Mystery
Fri 10 Jan 2020
How many animals have died in Australia and how many Labour voters went Conservative?
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C-sections and sharks
Sat 4 Jan 2020
Hospital births in China and whether it’s true 50% are delivered by caesarean section
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C-sections and sharks
Sat 4 Jan 2020
Hospital births in China and whether it’s true 50% are delivered by caesarean section
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Presidential candidates and dementia
Sat 28 Dec 2019
The health risks some of the frontrunners in the US presidential race face.
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Presidential candidates and dementia
Sat 28 Dec 2019
The health risks some of the frontrunners in the US presidential race face
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.
