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    More or Less: Behind the Stats

    More or Less: Behind the Stats

    More or Less: Behind the Stats

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    592 episodes
    Language:
    English
    Format:
    Podcast

    Description

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

    Episodes1 - 10 of 592 episodes

    Title

    Has Milei fixed Argentina’s inflation problem?

    Libertarian populist Javier Milei won the presidential election in Argentina on a promi...

    8 minutes
    		Apr 26, 2024

    98%: Is misinformation being spread about a review of trans youth medicine?

    The Cass Review is an independent report on the state of gender identity services for u...

    11 minutes
    		Apr 20, 2024

    Tackling The Three-Body Problem

    Netflix has a big new show named after and inspired by a classic problem in astrophysic...

    8 minutes
    		Apr 13, 2024

    Is loneliness as bad for you as smoking?

    Is loneliness as bad for you as smoking 15 cigarettes per day? That’s the claim circula...

    8 minutes
    		Apr 06, 2024

    Remembering Daniel Kahneman

    Daniel Kahneman, a Nobel prize-winning behavioural economist and More or Less hero, has...

    8 minutes
    		Mar 30, 2024

    Bonus episode: Daniel Kahneman on Thinking, Fast and Slow

    In an episode of More or Less from 2012, Daniel Kahneman – the Nobel prize-winning beha...

    9 minutes
    		Mar 28, 2024

    What's happening to Arctic ice?

    The area of ice covering the Arctic ocean has been in a state of long decline, as clima...

    9 minutes
    		Mar 25, 2024

    Does the Russian government really spend 40% of its budget on the military?

    According to the head of the British military, the Russian government spends 40% of its...

    8 minutes
    		Mar 16, 2024

    Is public speaking really our biggest fear?

    For over 50 years it’s been widely reported that speaking before a group is people’s nu...

    8 minutes
    		Mar 09, 2024

    Ultramarathons: Are women faster than men?

    As running races get longer, the gap between male and female competitors seems to close...

    8 minutes
    		Mar 02, 2024