More or Less
BBC Radio 4
Tim Harford explains - and sometimes debunks - the numbers and statistics used in political debate, the news and everyday life
Episodes
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Oct 18, 2019 • 20min
Esther Duflo and women in economics
Discussing Esther Duflo, Abhijit Banerjee and Michael Kremer’s economics Nobel Prize.
Oct 11, 2019 • 29min
The Extra Episode: Minimum wage, drinking in Scotland and identical twins.
We explore the numbers behind the new minimum wage announcements, whether drinking is going up or down in Scotland, the truth about squeezing people onto the Isle of Wight and how long one identical twin lives after the other twin dies. You’ll want to hear our special extra episode.
Oct 7, 2019 • 9min
WS More or Less: Does San Francisco have more rough sleepers than Britain?
Are the shocking statistics true? and how do you count people who don't wish to be found?
Oct 4, 2019 • 28min
New hospitals promised, aid to Ukraine, and bacon sandwiches
Dissecting the government’s hospitals announcement and President Trump’s Ukraine claims.
Sep 30, 2019 • 9min
WS More or Less: Who fought in World War 1?
Were a third of those that fought for Britain in WW1 black or Asian?
Sep 27, 2019 • 24min
Austerity Deaths, C-Sections and being struck by lightning
Has Austerity caused 120 thousand deaths in the UK and does God hate men?
Sep 23, 2019 • 9min
WS More or Less: Peaty v. Bolt: Which is the greatest world record?
Using statistics to compare world records in athletics and swimming.
Sep 20, 2019 • 25min
Dementia, inflation and shark deaths
Health risks for Presidential hopefuls, falling inflation, shark deaths and salary claims
Sep 16, 2019 • 9min
WS More or Less: Cape Town murders
Are eight people a day murdered in Cape Town and is that number unusually high?
Sep 13, 2019 • 24min
Maternal deaths, taxi driver earnings and statistical pop music
Are black women five times more likely to die in childbirth? Plus making pop music.
