Tim Harford and the More or Less team try to make sense of the statistics which surround us. From BB
After nearly 16,000 cases disappeared off coronaviruses spreadsheets, we ask what went wrong. How co
Case counts in perspective, a suspect stat from the US, and life lessons from insects.
A scary government graph this week showed what would happen if coronavirus cases doubled every seven
Tim Harford speaks to Israeli researcher, Tomer Hertz, about how the mathematical magic of pool test
Amid reports of problems with coronavirus testing across the UK, we interrogate the numbers on labor
A jump in the number of UK Covid-19 cases reported by the government has led to fears coronavirus is
As children return to school in England and Wales, we hear about what we know and what we don’t when
Donald Trump says allowing the emergency use of blood plasma therapy for coronavirus patients will s
We unpick the A-level algoshambles, discover why 1.3 million Covid tests disappeared from the govern
Autocratic leader Alexander Lukashenko claims to have won a landslide in the country’s presidential
Autocratic leader Alexander Lukashenko claims to have won a landslide in the country?s presidential
Covid-19 cases are rising in the UK - is it a sign of a second wave of the virus? We’re picking apar
One More or Less listener has heard that if all the ice in Antarctica melted, global sea levels woul
Do we have enough data to know what’s happening on the continent? We talk to Dr Justin Maeda from th
Tim Harford speaks to Steven Johnson about William Farr and the birth of epidemiology in the 1800s.
Tim Harford talks to statistician Ola Rosling about his research into misconceptions about Covid-19.
Unlike its Nordic neighbours, Sweden never imposed a lockdown to stem the spread of coronavirus. Tim
