More or Less: Behind the Stats

How maths can help you find love, and hold on to it. Plus, we hear a collection of our listeners’ favourite statistics. This programme was first broadcast on the BBC World Service.

Delving into the risks of excessive jogging on health, the podcast questions the validity of claims. It analyzes a study on jogging habits and mortality rates, highlighting potential health impacts. Additionally, it debunks flawed statistics regarding infidelity on cruise ships, providing a rational perspective on the data.

Tim Harford on claims that keen runners might be damaging their health. Plus, tuition fees; affairs among cruise passengers; UK election safe seats; loyal listeners' favourite statistics.

How to use mathematics to find your life partner. Plus: what are the chances that two friends, given the same due date for their babies' birth, actually do give birth on the same day? This programme was first broadcast on the BBC World Service.

Fact-checking political claims on job creation, milk pricing complexities, using maths to find a life partner, accuracy of baby due dates, and differences in teen pregnancy rates between US and UK.

Who is in the world's wealthiest elite, and where do they live? Which are the world's best and worst board-games? Oliver Roeder, a senior writer for FiveThirtyEight, says a statistical analysis can tell us. This programme was first broadcast on the BBC World Service.

Are the majority of hate crimes in the UK directed against Jewish people? Plus: who are the wealthiest 1% and politicians' healthcare connections examined.

In the wake of the Paris killings, an imam in Paris told the BBC that most terrorism victims around the world are Muslim. Is that true? Plus: The death toll of the Boko Haram attack in Baga, Nigeria. This programme was first broadcast on the BBC World Service.

Debating the size of Conservative cuts, accuracy of terrorism victim statistics, Nigeria's Baga death toll, and analyzing best and worst board games. Delving into species decline with Living Planet Index data.

Most cancers are caused by "bad luck" according to reports of a new study. But, actually, the study doesn't say that. Tim Harford finds out what the research really tells us. This programme was first broadcast on the BBC World Service.