Tim Harford and the More or Less team try to make sense of the statistics which surround us. From BB
This week Ruth Alexander looks at the extraordinary case of Andreas Georgiou the head of the Greek s
A ‘new’ BMI calculation has been proposed by Oxford Mathematician Professor Nick Trefethen but does
This week Ruth Alexander is looking at farmer suicides in India. But is it any more prevalent than i
Episode 1 of Tim Harford's new series, Pop Up Economics, in which he tells a live audience short sto
Reports this week suggest that we are wasting 50 per cent of our food globally. It comes from a stud
What does a 'guess the weight of the ox' competition tells us about a bloated and dysfunctional fina
A special review of the year through the interesting, informative and idiosyncratic numbers of 2012.
A guide to 2012 in numbers - the most informative, interesting and idiosyncratic statistics of the y
Tim Harford investigates the numbers in the debate on firearms deaths, and discovers the mathematics
Tim Harford investigates gun crime statistics in the US. Plus, why death is not always the one hard
This week: What is ‘rare’? When we say something is rare what do we mean? Lightning strikes which ty
Why was the estimate, in 2003, for Eastern Europeans coming to the UK so wrong? Which is better when
Where does Nigeria’s plan to revise its GDP leave our understanding of growth in Sub-saharan Africa?
In light of the Royal pregnancy Tim Harford asks what severe morning sickness tells us about the cha
Kevin Pietersen has been widely praised as one of the best England batsmen of the current era and po
On More or Less this week Tim Harford looks at three polls carried out to gauge the public’s opinion
This is the first in the new series of the programme. There’s a well-established idea that Manchest
This is the first in the new series of the programme. Tim Harford has been busy felling some ash tre
There's not an obvious link between chocolate and Nobel prizes, but this did not stop news outlets a
