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WS More or Less: How Louis Bachelier Scooped Economists by Half a Century
A forgotten French mathematician’s unusual approach to the stock market.
Missed appointments, graduate pay, plus cocaine on bank notes
Do missed appointments cost the NHS £1 billion? And do you always earn more with a degree?
WS More or Less: Just how rare is a hole-in-one?
Why it isn’t as simple to work out as you think.
More or Less: Statistics of the Year 2017
Phones, lawn mowers and how Kim Kardashian helped the public understanding of risk.
WS More or Less: Will Bitcoin use more electricity than the United States?
Measuring the energy used to keep the cryptocurrency secure.
WS More or Less: Diet Coke Habit; 'Contained' Wildfires
Could the US President’s Diet Coke habit affect his health? and 'contained' wildfires
WS More or Less: Does Eating Chocolate Make Your Brain Younger?
Are research findings misrepresented by funders, PR machines and the media?
WS More or Less: Just how lucky are regular lottery winners?
Are some people just very lucky? The maths suggest that is unlikely.
WS More or Less: How Rich was Jane Austen’s Mr Darcy?
What the Pride and Prejudice character would have earned in today’s money.
How expensive is Italy's World Cup failure?
How much will Italy's surprise failure to make it to the world cup cost FIFA?