More or Less: Behind the Stats
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Does the World Athletics Championships have a false start problem?
Is Uganda about to become a middle income country?
Does it take 10,000 litres of water to make a pair of jeans?
How many American women will have an abortion in their lifetime?
Covid climb, childcare costs and why can’t the French count properly?
Ed Sheeran and the mathematics of musical coincidences
Rail strikes, tyre pollution and sex statistics
How often do people have sex?
Maternity litigation, stars, bees and windowless planes
Hannah Fry: Understanding the numbers of cancer
Employment puzzle, pyramids and triplets
Are girls starting puberty earlier?
Jubilee costs, fuel poverty and imperial measures
Noisy Decisions
Germany’s excess deaths, Eurovision and teacher shortages
Are just 100 companies responsible for 71% of global emissions and how stressed are South Africans?
Did the WHO get some of its excess death estimates wrong?
Have the oceans become 30% more acidic?
Sweden’s polarising pandemic response
Understanding India through Data
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