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Tim Harford explains - and sometimes debunks - the numbers and statistics used in political debate, the news and everyday life
Understanding India through Data
8 mins; April 23, 2022
Subitising and simplifying: how to better explain numbers
8 mins; April 14, 2022
Did tea-drinking cut deaths in the Industrial Revolution?
8 mins; April 09, 2022
Will the war in Ukraine cause a global wheat shortage?
8 mins; April 02, 2022
Pizza and Nuclear War
8 mins; March 20, 2022
Does the UK take in more refugees than other European countries?
11 mins; March 13, 2022
Numbers in Ukraine and low seas in Chagos
8 mins; March 06, 2022
Troop and Casualty Numbers in Ukraine
29 mins; March 02, 2022
Did lockdowns save any lives?
8 mins; February 27, 2022
Vaccinating children, lockdowns, and ebikes
28 mins; February 23, 2022
Hospitalisation rates for children with Covid
8 mins; February 20, 2022
Questioning claims about Covid and children
29 mins; February 16, 2022
Testosterone and sport
8 mins; February 13, 2022
The prime minister in statistical bother
28 mins; February 09, 2022
Can you fool your brain?
8 mins; February 06, 2022
Does the UK have the fastest growing economy in the G7?
28 mins; February 02, 2022
Fertility rates: baby boom or bust?
8 mins; January 30, 2022
Should you follow the 5 second rule? And does inflation hit the poorest harder?
28 mins; January 26, 2022
Are female patients more likely to die if the surgeon is male?
10 mins; January 23, 2022
Are women 32% more likely to die after operation by a male surgeon?
28 mins; January 19, 2022
QAnon: Did 365,348 children go missing in the US in 2020?
8 mins; January 16, 2022
Omicron, pandemic birth rates and boosters
27 mins; January 12, 2022
How much plastic is in the Ocean and can Mr Beast make a difference?
8 mins; January 09, 2022
Will the population of Nigeria be larger than Europe’s?
8 mins; January 02, 2022
Numbers of 2021
8 mins; December 26, 2021
The psychological economics of gift giving
8 mins; December 19, 2021
Does catching covid give you more immunity than being vaccinated?
8 mins; December 12, 2021
Does wearing a mask halve your chances of getting Covid-19?
8 mins; December 05, 2021
Simpson’s Paradox: How to make vaccinated death figures misleading
8 mins; November 28, 2021
A TikTok tale
8 mins; November 21, 2021
The carbon cost of breakfast at COP26
8 mins; November 14, 2021
Same data, opposite results. Can we trust research?
8 mins; November 07, 2021
The art of counting
8 mins; October 31, 2021
The numbers behind Squid Game
8 mins; October 24, 2021
The prize-winning economics of migration and the minimum wage
8 mins; October 17, 2021
Bonus episode: the first ever More or Less
36 mins; October 07, 2021
Twenty years of More or Less
27 mins; October 06, 2021
The Gender Pay Gap
8 mins; October 03, 2021
Is it easy being green?
29 mins; September 29, 2021
Covid trends, face mask use, and the universal credit cut
27 mins; September 22, 2021
How many holes are there in a drinking straw?
8 mins; September 19, 2021
Death, Tax and Dishwashers
27 mins; September 15, 2021
Vaccine waning, hot dogs and Afghanistan
27 mins; September 08, 2021
The Bill for Afghanistan
8 mins; September 04, 2021
Covid, HGV driver shortages and protest costs
28 mins; September 01, 2021
Reason, numbers and Mr Spock
8 mins; August 28, 2021
The extraordinary life of Robert Moses
8 mins; August 21, 2021
The extraordinary life of Robert Moses
8 mins; August 21, 2021
How good were the performances at the Tokyo Olympics?
8 mins; August 16, 2021
How good were the performances at the Tokyo Olympics?
6 mins; August 14, 2021
Jab fears explained: a base rate fallacy
8 mins; August 07, 2021
Breaking Climate Records
8 mins; July 31, 2021
The Rise of Delta
8 mins; July 24, 2021
The Freedom Day Gamble
28 mins; July 19, 2021
Are there 40 million Nigerians on Twitter?
8 mins; July 10, 2021
Is Ivermectin a Covid ‘wonder drug’?
8 mins; July 03, 2021
Scotland cases, flood risk and taxing the poor
28 mins; June 30, 2021
Maths and the Mayflower
8 mins; June 26, 2021
Delta cases, blue tits and that one-in-two cancer claim
29 mins; June 23, 2021
The origins of Covid
8 mins; June 19, 2021
Covid deaths, outdoor swimming and care homes
28 mins; June 16, 2021
The doubling of life-expectancy
8 mins; June 12, 2021
Third wave fears, smart motorways and bra sizes
28 mins; June 09, 2021
Bolton vaccines, Yorkshire versus Scotland and the average gamer
28 mins; June 02, 2021
The Seaspiracy “virtually empty ocean” claim
8 mins; May 29, 2021
Wales jab success, Eurovision and living with your parents
28 mins; May 26, 2021
The medical trial that proved Trump wrong
8 mins; May 22, 2021
Explaining maths without Numbers
8 mins; May 14, 2021
Finding Mexico City’s real death toll
8 mins; May 08, 2021
Bayes: the clergyman whose maths changed the world
8 mins; May 02, 2021
Will 2021 have more Covid deaths than 2020?
8 mins; April 24, 2021
How many swimming pools full of vaccine do we need?
8 mins; April 17, 2021
Clot risks: The Pill versus the vaccine
8 mins; April 10, 2021
Too fast for Minecraft?
9 mins; April 04, 2021
In praise of Covid Data
8 mins; March 26, 2021
Deciding when to suspend a vaccine
8 mins; March 19, 2021
The truth about obesity and Covid 19
8 mins; March 12, 2021
Sainthood and Cup draws
8 mins; March 05, 2021
Why are US Covid cases falling?
8 mins; February 26, 2021
Covid 19 death count: which countries are faring worst?
8 mins; February 19, 2021
Comparing death counts, Lock Down drinking and Long Covid
28 mins; February 17, 2021
How much Covid in the World?
8 mins; February 12, 2021
Brexit exports, cladding and are 1 in 5 disabled?
28 mins; February 10, 2021
Glasgow vs Rwanda
8 mins; February 05, 2021
Teachers, Test & Trace and Butterflies
27 mins; February 03, 2021
Teachers, Test & Trace and Butterflies
28 mins; February 03, 2021
The Rapid Test Row
8 mins; January 29, 2021
Deaths at Home, Supermarket Infections and the Cobra Effect
28 mins; January 27, 2021
Deaths at home, supermarket infections and the Cobra effect
28 mins; January 27, 2021
Counting Covid’s impact on GDP
8 mins; January 22, 2021
Will the vaccine bring back normal life? GDP and Fishing
27 mins; January 20, 2021
How effective is one dose of the vaccine?
29 mins; January 14, 2021
Ants and Algorithms
8 mins; January 09, 2021
Numbers of the year: Part two
8 mins; January 08, 2021
Numbers of the year: Part one
8 mins; January 08, 2021
The economics of a Covid Christmas
8 mins; December 19, 2020
QAnon: Child runaways and trafficking numbers debunked
8 mins; December 12, 2020
Vaccines: how safe and who gets it?
8 mins; December 05, 2020
Tracking Covid 19
9 mins; November 28, 2020
Inviting Covid for Dinner
9 mins; November 21, 2020
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