Tim Harford and the More or Less team try to make sense of the statistics which surround us. From BB
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The Man Who Counted, a book of 'Arabic' mathematical tales written by Middle Eastern scholar Malba T
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Sir Roger Bannister became the first man to run a mile in under four minutes 60 ago. It's one of the
How much British law is made in Brussels - 75% as UKIP say, or 7% as Nick Clegg says? And how might
Are 100 million women missing from the world? A listener asks More or Less to explore this powerful
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Nigeria's bureau of statistics has overhauled the way it calculates the country's GDP figures. With
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Are there really be 300,000 French people in London and would they really want to leave France for t
