Tim Harford explains - and sometimes debunks - the numbers and statistics used in political debate, the news and everyday life
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Explore how numbers shape, and sometimes mislead us, with The Open University.
BBC Ideas discovers three easy ways to help make sense of statistics.
'More or Less' investigates why the claim is not really backed up by the numbers.
As food prices soar, we fact check how they compare with neighbouring nations
Tim Harford looks at how inflation is calculated and what is really means when it changes
More or Less asks whether this widely circulated figure is accurate.