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
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
Subitising and simplifying: how to better explain numbers
Did tea-drinking cut deaths in the Industrial Revolution?
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