More or Less: Behind the Stats by BBC Radio 4

Tim Harford and the More or Less team try to make sense of the statistics which surround us. From BBC Radio 4

Kategorie: Nachrichten und Politik

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- Brexit and trade, pensioner millionaires and Hannah Fry on loyalty cards and cancer

Wed, 01 Feb 2023
841
- Are wild mammals only 4% of the mammal population?

Sat, 28 Jan 2023
840
- Coffee with the Chancellor, inflation measures, GP numbers and toilet paper

Wed, 25 Jan 2023
839
- Does toilet paper cause 15% of global deforestation?

Sat, 21 Jan 2023
838
- Ambulance response times, teacher pay and Irish pubs

Wed, 18 Jan 2023
837
- How we shook the world of very large numbers

Sat, 14 Jan 2023
836
- A&E delays and deaths, religious identity in N Ireland and naming the monster numbers

Wed, 11 Jan 2023
835
- Can China's data on covid deaths be trusted?

Sat, 07 Jan 2023
834
- Irish pubs - a global numbers game

Sat, 31 Dec 2022
833
- Numbers of the Year 2022

Sat, 24 Dec 2022
832
- Qatar World Cup: the pressure of penalties

Sat, 17 Dec 2022
831
- Why are data so important in determining how we live?

Sat, 10 Dec 2022
830
- The World Cup: how many migrant workers have died?

Sat, 03 Dec 2022
829
- When do food shortages become a famine?

Sat, 26 Nov 2022
828
- A $220 billion World Cup?

Sat, 19 Nov 2022
827
- Bonus Episode: Understand the Economy

Mon, 14 Nov 2022
826
- Improving the numbers in the news

Sat, 12 Nov 2022
825
- Lula’s “zero deforestation” plan for the Amazon

Sat, 05 Nov 2022
824
- Can China’s GDP data be trusted?

Sat, 29 Oct 2022
823
- Do half of new books really sell fewer than twelve copies?

Sat, 22 Oct 2022
822
- Ben Bernanke and the magic of banking

Sat, 15 Oct 2022
821
- Catching Chess Cheats with Data

Sat, 08 Oct 2022
820
- Teens and antidepressants, stamp duty savings and earthquake probabilities

Fri, 07 Oct 2022
818
- NASA’s asteroid collision: how many asteroids are really out there?

Sat, 01 Oct 2022
817
- Falling pound, the Queen’s funeral and is 0.5 on the Richter scale a big number?

Wed, 28 Sep 2022
816
- Ukraine’s progress in numbers

Sat, 24 Sep 2022
815
- Ukraine offensive, weak pound & how much do women really exercise

Thu, 22 Sep 2022
813
- How bad is fashion for the environment?

Sat, 17 Sep 2022
812
- Energy crisis plan, imperial measures survey, gardens v national parks

Wed, 14 Sep 2022
811
- Is a third of Pakistan really under water?

Sat, 10 Sep 2022
810
- Pakistan flooding, UK power prices and Boris’s broadband claim

Wed, 07 Sep 2022
809
- Can we use maths to beat the robots?

Sat, 03 Sep 2022
808
- Energy prices, excess deaths and the race to count to 200

Wed, 31 Aug 2022
807
- Kenya’s Election Rounding Error

Sat, 27 Aug 2022
806
- The numbers behind “natural” birth control

Sat, 20 Aug 2022
805
- Is opinion polling broken?

Sat, 13 Aug 2022
804
- Debunking the Liverpool FC Conspiracy Theory

Sat, 06 Aug 2022
803
- How our world measures up

Sat, 30 Jul 2022
802
- Does the World Athletics Championships have a false start problem?

Sat, 23 Jul 2022
801
- Is Uganda about to become a middle income country?

Sat, 16 Jul 2022
800
- Does it take 10,000 litres of water to make a pair of jeans?

Sat, 09 Jul 2022
799
- How many American women will have an abortion in their lifetime?

Sat, 02 Jul 2022
798
- Covid climb, childcare costs and why can’t the French count properly?

Wed, 29 Jun 2022
797
- Ed Sheeran and the mathematics of musical coincidences

Sat, 25 Jun 2022
796
- Rail strikes, tyre pollution and sex statistics

Wed, 22 Jun 2022
795
- How often do people have sex?

Sat, 18 Jun 2022
794
- Maternity litigation, stars, bees and windowless planes

Wed, 15 Jun 2022
793
- Hannah Fry: Understanding the numbers of cancer

Sat, 11 Jun 2022
792
- Employment puzzle, pyramids and triplets

Wed, 08 Jun 2022
791
- Are girls starting puberty earlier?

Sat, 04 Jun 2022

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