Tim Harford and the More or Less team try to make sense of the statistics which surround us. From BB
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National Geographic magazine recently wrote that “people in the United States eat more than 672 bill
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Why do some puzzles make us immediately leap to the wrong conclusion?That’s the subject of Alex Bell
Why do some puzzles make us immediately leap to the wrong conclusion?That?s the subject of Alex Bell
The government is encouraging pensioners to claim pension credit in order to remain eligible for win
We don’t usually do god on More or Less, but one listener got in touch to ask us to investigate a st
We don?t usually do god on More or Less, but one listener got in touch to ask us to investigate a st
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Big stakes poker player and elections analyst Nate Silver is no stranger to a calculated risk. In hi
Do illegal migrants receive more in benefits than pensioners? Was Energy Secretary Ed Miliband right
Donald Trump wants new tariffs on goods coming into the US, describing them as a tax on other countr
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The Cuban government has announced that their population has fallen by 10% in two years – just days
The Cuban government has announced that their population has fallen by 10% in two years ? just days
The claim we all swallow 5.5 grams of microplastic each week – the same as the weight of a credit ca
Recent reports claimed the average global mark-up, the difference between the price of production an
Canadian psychologist and culture war commentator Jordan Peterson says planet Earth has got 20% gree
Researchers have catalogued 7,164 languages spoken around the world - some are used daily by billion
The idea that women outnumber men by 14 to 1 as casualties of natural disasters has been repeated in
