More or Less

Tim Harford explains the numbers and statistics in the news and in life.

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WS More or Less: You have 15,000 likes!
A listener doubts her popularity on the dating app Tinder. We investigate the numbers.
04 Feb 2019,9 mins
Holocaust Deniers; Venezuelan Hyperinflation; Tinder Likes
Tim Harford on Holocaust deniers; food prices in Venezuela, and dating app statistics
01 Feb 2019,28 mins
WS More or Less: Is Suicide Seasonal?
Tim Harford asks which times of the year are riskiest for suicide.
26 Jan 2019,9 mins
Domestic Violence, Jobs, Easter Snowfall
Tim Harford on domestic violence, employment numbers, and the chance of a white Easter.
25 Jan 2019,23 mins
WS More or Less: Close Encounters of a Planetary Kind
Which planet is closest to Earth?
19 Jan 2019,9 mins
Intersex Numbers, Fact-Checking Facebook, Jack Bogle
Tim Harford asks whether 1.7% of people are intersex, and examines false claims about MPs
18 Jan 2019,30 mins
WS More or Less: The Mathematics of Fever
We look at the numbers behind body temperature – what is normal?
12 Jan 2019,10 mins
Sugar, Outdoors Play and Planets
Tim Harford on sugar, train fares, children's outdoors play and Earth's closest neighbour
11 Jan 2019,28 mins
WS More or Less: Numbers of the Year Part 2
Helena Merriman with numbers about water shortage, plastic recycling and American jobs.
04 Jan 2019,8 mins
WS More or Less: Numbers of the Year Part 1
The numbers that made 2018.
29 Dec 2018,8 mins
WS More or Less: Mission Impossible - Quantifiying Santa
What to look out for on Christmas Eve.
22 Dec 2018,8 mins
WS More or Less: Dam Lies and Statistics
Are mega-dams really sustainable?
17 Dec 2018,8 mins
WS More or Less: Sex and Heart Attacks
Are women more likely to die from a heart attack than men?
30 Nov 2018,8 mins
WS More or Less: Are 90% of War Fatalities Civilians?
Xavier Zapata examines what the data tells us about the deadly impact of war on civilians
23 Nov 2018,16 mins
WS More or Less: When’s a Kilogram Not a Kilogram?
Updating the kilogram.
16 Nov 2018,9 mins
WS More or Less: Do Assassinations Work?
How likely are assassination attempts on heads of state to succeed?
09 Nov 2018,8 mins
WS More or Less: Vaccines - The importance of the herd and social media
What proportion of a population needs to be vaccinated to stop a disease spreading?
28 Oct 2018,11 mins
WS More or Less: Foreign Aid: Who’s the most generous?
In foreign aid terms what’s the best way of measuring how generous a country is?
19 Oct 2018,8 mins
WS More or Less: Paul Romer and William Nordhaus’ Big Ideas
The economists tackling climate change and growth.
12 Oct 2018,9 mins
Loneliness, School Funding, Same-Sex Divorce
A BBC loneliness survey, school funding, same-sex divorce and the loyalty of listeners.
09 Oct 2018,9 mins
WS More or Less: Why are Lesbians More Likely to Divorce than Gay Men?
Tim Harford talks to economist Marina Ashdade about same-sex divorce statistics.
07 Oct 2018,9 mins
Loneliness; School Funding; Same-Sex Divorce.
Tim Harford on a BBC loneliness survey; school funding; same-sex divorce; loyal listeners
05 Oct 2018,20 mins
WS More of Less: Surviving the Battle of Britain
Were Spitfire pilots killed after an average of four weeks in the World War Two battle?
01 Oct 2018,9 mins
Surviving the Battle of Britain; the World Cup and Domestic Violence; Buckfast and Arrests in Scotland
Tim Harford on Spitfire pilots, and whether football triggers violence in the home.
28 Sep 2018,22 mins
WS More or Less: Trump and the Puerto Rico Death Toll
How can we calculate excess mortality after a natural disaster?
24 Sep 2018,8 mins
How Many Schoolchildren are Carers? Shareholder Income, and Museum Visitors Vs Football Fans
Tim Harford on child carers, shareholder income, football vs museums and dangerous sports
21 Sep 2018,25 mins
WS More or Less: DNA - Are You More Chimp or Neanderthal?
What is the difference between 96% similarity or sharing 20% of our DNA?
17 Sep 2018,9 mins
Male suicide, school ratings, are female tennis players treated unfairly by umpires?
Tim Harford with statistics on suicide, good schools and sexism in tennis. Plus goats
14 Sep 2018,24 mins
WS More or Less: The Safest Car in the World?
A listener asks whether his Volvo is the safest car on the road?
10 Sep 2018,9 mins
Heart Age Calculator; Danish Sperm Imports; Counting Goats
Tim Harford questions the usefulness of a popular heart age calculator.
07 Sep 2018,23 mins