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More or Less: Behind the Stats

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

Episodes

Total: 1116

Vaccines are the best way to stop deaths and serious cases related to covid19, this is an irrefutabl

A TikTok tale

2021/11/21

Nowadays if you are an academic and who needs some participants for a study you go online, but over

A French minister told people to eat fewer croissants at this year’s COP26 summit, after the menu sa

When Professor Martin Schweinsberg found that he was consistently reaching different conclusions to

The art of counting

2021/10/31

Who is counting, why are they counting, and what are they are counting? These three questions are i

Netflix has announced that South Korean survival drama Squid Game is its most popular series ever.

Do immigrants drive down wages, do minimum wage increases reduce job opportunities, and do people wh

A chat with More or Less's founding producer and presenter plus the first episode in full. Tim tal

A look back at our origins, plus the usual mix of numerical nous and statistical savvy.It’s two deca

The Gender Pay Gap

2021/10/3

Tim Harford talks to Planet Money’s Stacey Vanek Smith about the gender pay gap in the US and the UK

Is it easy being green?

2021/9/29

Is our electricity extra expensive and our insulation inadequate? And a tale of tumbling trees.Inter

A coronavirus check-in, our daily mask use measured, and a minister's claim on the universal credit

Tim Harford talks to Jordan Ellenberg, professor of mathematics at the University of Wisconsin at Ma

New data appears to show that double vaxxed people between 40 and 79 are getting Covid at higher rat

Should we be worried that the protection against Covid-19 provided by the vaccines is going down? Co

The Bill for Afghanistan

2021/9/4

American President Joe Biden has said the war in Afghanistan cost more than $2 trillion. Todd Harris

English Covid restrictions were lifted in July. Back then, some predicted that there could be as man

Writer Julia Galef talks to Tim Harford about the role of numbers in helping us think more rationall

Dr Robert Moses, a pioneer in African-American civil rights and mathematics education has died at th

A year later than planned, The Tokyo Olympics, have now finished. Thousands of athletes have compete