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
Coffee with the Chancellor, inflation measures, GP numbers and toilet paper
Does toilet paper cause 15% of global deforestation?
Ambulance response times, teacher pay and Irish pubs
How we shook the world of very large numbers
A&E delays and deaths, religious identity in N Ireland and naming the monster numbers
Can China's data on covid deaths be trusted?
Irish pubs - a global numbers game
Numbers of the Year 2022
Qatar World Cup: the pressure of penalties
Why are data so important in determining how we live?
The World Cup: how many migrant workers have died?
When do food shortages become a famine?
A $220 billion World Cup?
Bonus Episode: Understand the Economy
Improving the numbers in the news
Lula’s “zero deforestation” plan for the Amazon
Can China’s GDP data be trusted?
Do half of new books really sell fewer than twelve copies?
Ben Bernanke and the magic of banking
Catching Chess Cheats with Data
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