More or Less: Behind the Stats

Explore the impact of neuroscience on education, from brain plasticity to enhancing engagement in gaming and learning. Discover how teenagers' brains are malleable and the importance of effort over intelligence in education. Delve into mindsets and academic perceptions, along with the groundbreaking research shaping the future of teaching and learning.

In a change to the usual format, we are podcasting Matthew Taylor’s series “Brain Culture”. He explores how neuroscience will change society, asking how the justice system will change now that we can scan criminal brains.

This podcast explores government waste, debunks misleading statistics, delves into logic puzzles, analyzes correlation in crime rates, discusses economic impacts of hosting Olympics, and explores the probability of specific Scrabble draws.

Exploring parallels between the Euro debt crisis and Greek mythology, understanding the impact of off-balance sheet accounting on Greece's entry into the Eurozone, analyzing the placebo effect in medical treatments, and the evolution of social surveys over 70 years showcasing shifts in societal attitudes and behaviors.

On this week's More or Less: Scottish independence, mobile phones and cancer, and is Tendulkar the greatest sportsman?

Debunking salt myths, questioning health advice, analyzing crime strategies, predicting children's height based on parents, and exploring statistical significance in health studies

In More or Less this week: riots, debt, disability benefit and when to buy a lotto ticket.

Tim Harford and the More or Less team unpick more numbers in the news. This week: US debt, NHS funding and the "27 club".

Investigating the public sector pay premium, statins and the 'decline effect'.

More or Less looks at child poverty, climate refugees and Sir Henry Cooper's greatest moment.