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
Ben Bernanke and the magic of banking
Catching Chess Cheats with Data
Teens and antidepressants, stamp duty savings and earthquake probabilities
NASA’s asteroid collision: how many asteroids are really out there?
Falling pound, the Queen’s funeral and is 0.5 on the Richter scale a big number?
Ukraine’s progress in numbers
Ukraine offensive, weak pound & how much do women really exercise
How bad is fashion for the environment?
Energy crisis plan, imperial measures survey, gardens v national parks
Is a third of Pakistan really under water?
Pakistan flooding, UK power prices and Boris’s broadband claim
Can we use maths to beat the robots?
Energy prices, excess deaths and the race to count to 200
Kenya’s Election Rounding Error
The numbers behind “natural” birth control
Is opinion polling broken?
Debunking the Liverpool FC Conspiracy Theory
How our world measures up
Does the World Athletics Championships have a false start problem?
Is Uganda about to become a middle income country?
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