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Questioning the Chernobyl disaster death count
We fact check the recent TV drama Chernobyl
WS More or Less: Dealing with the Numbers of Cancer
How one woman used statistics to help cope with cancer.
WS More or Less: The things we fail to see
The hidden influences that a make a big difference to the way the world works.
Are married women flipping miserable?
Measuring happiness, university access in Scotland, plus will one in two get cancer?
WS More or Less: Volcanoes versus humans
Does Mount Etna produce more carbon emissions than humans? We check the numbers.
Hay Festival Special
What does it mean to say that the UK is the fifth largest economy in the world?
WS More or Less: Florence Nightingale – recognising the nurse statistician
How collecting data about the dead led the famous nurse to promote better sanitation.
Eurovision and fact-checking Naomi Wolf
The stats behind making a successful song, plus misunderstanding Victorian court records.
Making music out of Money
A musical interpretation of a chart depicting the yield-curve of American bonds.
Heart deaths, Organised crime and Gender data gaps
Are more people dying from coronary disease? Plus how we need more economic data on women
