More or Less: Behind the Stats
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Did London see a 2500% increase in gun crime? Are taxes in the UK the highest since the 1950s? Did the UK have high excess deaths from Covid, compared to the rest of Europe? Do three cats go missing every second in the UK?
Tim and the team investigate a few of the numbers in the news.
Presenter: Tim Harford Producer: Nathan Gower Series Producer: Tom Colls Production co-ordinator: Maria Ogundele Sound mix: James Beard Editor: Richard Vadon
Will the population of Nigeria be larger than Europe’s?
Numbers of 2021
The psychological economics of gift giving
Does catching covid give you more immunity than being vaccinated?
Does wearing a mask halve your chances of getting Covid-19?
Simpson’s Paradox: How to make vaccinated death figures misleading
A TikTok tale
The carbon cost of breakfast at COP26
Same data, opposite results. Can we trust research?
The art of counting
The numbers behind Squid Game
The prize-winning economics of migration and the minimum wage
Bonus episode: the first ever More or Less
Twenty years of More or Less
The Gender Pay Gap
Is it easy being green?
Covid trends, face mask use, and the universal credit cut
How many holes are there in a drinking straw?
Death, Tax and Dishwashers
Vaccine waning, hot dogs and Afghanistan
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