More or Less: Behind the Stats

BBC Radio 4
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Aug 16, 2019 • 9min

Mice and mind blowing maths

Re-inserting a caveat and discussing a really cool numbers trick.
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Aug 9, 2019 • 9min

Immigrant Crime Rate in the US

Do immigrants commit more crime than native-born Americans in the United States?
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Aug 2, 2019 • 9min

The spread of fact-checking in Africa

With misinformation so easy to spread, how can it be stopped or challenged?
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Jul 26, 2019 • 9min

Pregnancy prohibitions – the evidence

Taking a statistical look at what expectant mothers should avoid.
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Jul 19, 2019 • 9min

Missing women from drug trials

How medical testing on just men causes problems.
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Jul 19, 2019 • 9min

Zimbabwe’s economy: Are sanctions to blame?

We look at politicians’ claims that sanctions are to blame for Zimbabwe’s difficulties.
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Jul 5, 2019 • 9min

Two World Cups: Football and Cricket

On this week’s More or Less, Ruth Alexander looks at the numbers involved with the two world cups that are going on at the moment. Are more men than women watching the Women’s World Cup and how accurate is the Cricket World Cup rule of thumb that suggests if you double the score after 30 overs you get a good estimate of the final innings total?Producer: Richard VadonImage: Cricket World Cup Trophy 2019 Credit: Getty Images/ Gareth Copley-IDI
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Jun 28, 2019 • 10min

Is nuclear power actually safer than you think?

We questioned the death count of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in last week’s More or Less podcast. In the end, Professor Jim Smith of Portsmouth University came up with an estimate of 15,000 deaths. But we wondered how deadly nuclear power is overall when compared to other energy sources? Dr Hannah Ritchie of the University of Oxford joins Charlotte McDonald to explore.Image:Chernobyl nuclear plant, October 1st 1986 Credit: Getty Images
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Jun 21, 2019 • 15min

Questioning the Chernobyl disaster death count

The recent TV miniseries ‘Chernobyl’ has stirred up debate online about the accuracy of its portrayal of the explosion at a nuclear power plant in the former Soviet state of Ukraine. We fact-check the programme and try and explain why it so hard to say how many people will die because of the Chernobyl disaster.Image: Chernobyl nuclear power plant a few weeks after the disaster. Credit: Getty Images
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Jun 14, 2019 • 9min

WS More or Less: Dealing with the Numbers of Cancer

How one woman used statistics to help cope with cancer.

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