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
Why is life expectancy falling in the USA?
How much is the Coronation crown worth?
The Pentagon Leaks and Fox News
How accurate is baby's due date?
How to better understand and explain numbers
A groundbreaking new proof for Pythagoras’ Theorem?
Covid vaccines and false claims about miscarriage
Silicon Valley Bank: a very modern bank run
Do fungi kill three times as many people as malaria?
Does your jewellery contain stolen Brink’s-Mat gold?
UK vs European energy prices, falling excess deaths and is 5 grams of cocaine a lot?
Do 29,000 coffee pods really go to landfill every minute?
Reoffending rates, Welsh taxes and the menopause
Florence Nightingale and how she visualised data
Nurses' pay, ambulance times and forgotten female economists
Spreadsheet disasters
The IMF and the UK economy, NHS staff shortages and British vs English
Hannah Fry on using shopping data to detect ovarian cancer
Brexit and trade, pensioner millionaires and Hannah Fry on loyalty cards and cancer
Are wild mammals only 4% of the mammal population?
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