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Tim Harford explains - and sometimes debunks - the numbers and statistics used in political debate, the news and everyday life

Were ‘extra’ votes counted in Russia’s presidential election?

9 mins; March 23, 2018

Factchecking Trump on Trade

9 mins; March 16, 2018

WS More or Less: Sir Roger Bannister

9 mins; March 09, 2018

WS More or Less: Women, the Oscars and the Bechdel Test

13 mins; March 05, 2018

WS More or Less: The Winter Olympics

11 mins; February 25, 2018

WS More or Less: Debunking guide – on a postcard

10 mins; February 18, 2018

UN rape claims, Stalin and Mr Darcy

28 mins; February 16, 2018

WS More or Less: Has Russian Drinking Fallen by 80% in five years?

6 mins; February 11, 2018

The Dow, Tampons, Parkrun part II

28 mins; February 09, 2018

WS More or Less: Is China On Track to End Poverty by 2020?

13 mins; February 05, 2018

Transgender Numbers, Parkrun and Snooker

31 mins; February 02, 2018

Is the US Census Under Threat?

9 mins; January 29, 2018

A Girl's First Time, Shark's Stomachs, Prime numbers

23 mins; January 26, 2018

WS More or Less: Real Lives Behind the Numbers

8 mins; January 22, 2018

Gender Pay Gaps and How to Learn a Language

27 mins; January 19, 2018

WS More or Less: How Louis Bachelier Scooped Economists by Half a Century

9 mins; January 15, 2018

Missed appointments, graduate pay, plus cocaine on bank notes

28 mins; January 12, 2018

WS More or Less: Just how rare is a hole-in-one?

8 mins; January 07, 2018

More or Less: Statistics of the Year 2017

9 mins; December 31, 2017

WS More or Less: Will Bitcoin use more electricity than the United States?

9 mins; December 24, 2017

WS More or Less: Diet Coke Habit; 'Contained' Wildfires

9 mins; December 18, 2017

WS More or Less: Does Eating Chocolate Make Your Brain Younger?

10 mins; December 11, 2017

WS More or Less: Just how lucky are regular lottery winners?

10 mins; December 04, 2017

WS More or Less: How Rich was Jane Austen’s Mr Darcy?

8 mins; November 26, 2017

How expensive is Italy's World Cup failure?

8 mins; November 17, 2017

WS More or Less: Why Albums are Getting Longer

13 mins; November 12, 2017

WS More or Less: Do Nigerian lawmakers get $1.7m and do Yams cause twins?

8 mins; November 05, 2017

WS More or Less: Novelists in numbers

8 mins; October 30, 2017

WS More or Less: Are US millennials more politically engaged online?

8 mins; October 20, 2017

How Richard Thaler changed Economics

22 mins; October 13, 2017

WS More or Less: Kilobyte to Brontobyte

8 mins; October 10, 2017

WS More or Less: Big polluters - ships versus cars

9 mins; October 02, 2017

Uber; EU passports; counting domestic violence

24 mins; September 29, 2017

WS More or Less: Sperm - Are we going extinct?

9 mins; September 25, 2017

Statistics abuse, tuition fees and beer in 1887

25 mins; September 22, 2017

WS More or Less: How to measure a Hurricane

9 mins; September 15, 2017

Are Natural Disasters on the Rise?

25 mins; September 15, 2017

WS More or Less: More Horses than Tanks?

9 mins; September 11, 2017

Electric cars, school-ready and feedback

25 mins; September 08, 2017

One in 500 Year Storm

6 mins; September 04, 2017

Grenfell Tower's Death Toll

27 mins; September 01, 2017

Fantasy Football - How to win

10 mins; August 28, 2017

A-levels, drowning and dress sizes

27 mins; August 25, 2017

The Trump Bump

10 mins; August 20, 2017

Are there 15,000 transgender people serving in the US military?

8 mins; August 14, 2017

Why is Kenya’s election so expensive?

8 mins; August 07, 2017

More boys than girls in Sweden?

8 mins; July 31, 2017

Maryam Mirzakhani – A Genius of Maths

9 mins; July 24, 2017

Calling the shots at Wimbledon

8 mins; July 17, 2017

Is Steph Curry cheap and how random is random?

8 mins; July 10, 2017

In Search of Woodall Primes

20 mins; June 30, 2017

How rare are deadly tower block fires?

8 mins; June 26, 2017

Trumpton Extra

16 mins; June 21, 2017

Post-Election Special

29 mins; June 19, 2017

WS More or Less: Are African football players more likely to die on the field?

9 mins; June 12, 2017

UK Election extra

14 mins; June 07, 2017

WS More or Less: Samba, strings and the story of HIV

9 mins; June 05, 2017

Election Special: Tax, borders and climate

29 mins; June 02, 2017

WS More or Less: Have 65% of future jobs not yet been invented?

9 mins; May 28, 2017

Spies, care homes, and ending sneak peeks

23 mins; May 26, 2017

WS More or Less: Uganda’s refugees

9 mins; May 22, 2017

Tax, speed dating and sea ice

24 mins; May 19, 2017

Nurses' pay, Scottish seats, Penalty shootouts

23 mins; May 13, 2017

WS More or Less: Is my Baby a Giant?

9 mins; May 12, 2017

WS More or Less: An urban maze

9 mins; May 08, 2017

Is Crime Rising?

24 mins; May 05, 2017

WS More or Less: The Maths of Dating

9 mins; May 01, 2017

Fact-checking Boris Johnson

28 mins; April 28, 2017

WS More or Less: The death rate of white Americans – What’s going on?

9 mins; April 21, 2017

Living standards and Kate Bush maths

23 mins; April 21, 2017

WS More or Less: The Ignorance Test

9 mins; April 14, 2017

Economics of Overbooking

24 mins; April 14, 2017

WS More or Less: Could North Korea Wipe out 90% of Americans?

9 mins; April 10, 2017

WS More or Less: Will one in four people develop a mental health problem?

9 mins; March 31, 2017

WS More Or Less: Baby Boxes – are they really saving infant’s lives?

9 mins; March 24, 2017

More or Less: The concrete facts about Trump’s wall and China

9 mins; March 17, 2017

WS More or Less: The Attention Span of a Goldfish

8 mins; March 10, 2017

WS More or Less: Why are Hollywood actresses paid less than men?

8 mins; March 03, 2017

WS More or Less: What happened last night in Sweden?

9 mins; February 24, 2017

Hidden Figures: The Real Story

9 mins; February 17, 2017

WS More or Less: Hans Rosling - the extraordinary life of a statistical guru

26 mins; February 12, 2017

WS More or Less: Is democracy failing in America?

8 mins; February 03, 2017

WS More or Less: Counting Crowds

8 mins; January 27, 2017

WS More or Less: Why January makes us want to scream

9 mins; January 20, 2017

WS More or Less: Christian Martyrs

9 mins; January 13, 2017

WS More or Less: Should we really be drinking eight glasses of water a day?

9 mins; January 06, 2017

WS More or Less: Does Sweden Really Have a Six Hour Day?

9 mins; January 03, 2017

The Haber-Bosch Process

9 mins; December 28, 2016

WS More or Less: Life, death and data

9 mins; December 26, 2016

Christmas Quiz

28 mins; December 23, 2016

WS More or Less: Yellow cards for Christmas

9 mins; December 16, 2016

Have more famous people died this year?

23 mins; December 16, 2016

WS More or Less: How risky is the contraceptive pill?

9 mins; December 12, 2016

How wrong were the Brexit forecasts?

24 mins; December 09, 2016

WS More or Less: How not to test public opinion

9 mins; December 02, 2016

Are you related to Edward III - and Danny Dyer?

23 mins; December 02, 2016

WS More or Less: Good news on renewables?

9 mins; November 28, 2016

Pensioners aren't poor anymore

24 mins; November 25, 2016

WS More or Less: Avoiding Asteroids

9 mins; November 21, 2016

Is dementia the number one killer?

24 mins; November 18, 2016

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