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

WS More or Less: Liberia’s Rape Statistic Debunked

9 mins; November 14, 2016

US election, stray cats and puzzles

24 mins; November 11, 2016

WS More or Less: Ice Cream versus aid

9 mins; November 07, 2016

Trump tells the Truth

23 mins; November 04, 2016

WS More or Less: Child Marriage, Dangerous Algorithms

8 mins; October 28, 2016

WS More or Less: Escobar’s Cocaine Deaths

8 mins; October 24, 2016

WS More or Less: Algorithms, Crime and Punishment

8 mins; October 14, 2016

WS More or Less: The Sustainable Development Goals – are there just too many?

8 mins; October 07, 2016

WS More or Less: Who Won the US Presidential Debate?

8 mins; September 30, 2016

WS More or Less: Trump’s crime claims

9 mins; September 23, 2016

WS More or Less: Wedding gift economics

9 mins; September 17, 2016

WS More or Less: Drug deaths in the Philippines

9 mins; September 11, 2016

WS More or Less: Menstrual Syncing

9 mins; September 05, 2016

Irish Passports

28 mins; September 02, 2016

Death Penalty abolition

9 mins; August 30, 2016

Gender Pay Gap

27 mins; August 26, 2016

WS More or Less: Counting Terror Deaths

9 mins; August 22, 2016

Counting Terror Deaths

28 mins; August 19, 2016

WS More or Less: Swimming World Records

9 mins; August 15, 2016

Grammar Schools

28 mins; August 12, 2016

WS More or Less: Predicting Olympic Medals

9 mins; August 08, 2016

Plastic Bags

28 mins; August 05, 2016

WS More or Less: Odd Socks and Algorithms

9 mins; August 01, 2016

The Supermarket Effect

24 mins; July 29, 2016

WS More or Less: Ireland’s Shock GDP figures

9 mins; July 22, 2016

WS More or Less: Violence, shootings and the police in the US

9 mins; July 15, 2016

WS More or Less: Sleeping: the 8-hour myth

9 mins; July 08, 2016

Ranking Iceland’s Football Team

9 mins; July 01, 2016

WS More or Less: Brexit Economics

9 mins; June 24, 2016

WS More or Less: When Companies Track Your Life

9 mins; June 20, 2016

The Referendum by Numbers: Trade

11 mins; June 17, 2016

The Referendum by Numbers: Regulation

11 mins; June 16, 2016

The Referendum by Numbers: Law

11 mins; June 15, 2016

The Referendum by Numbers: Immigration

11 mins; June 14, 2016

The Referendum by Numbers: The Cost of EU Membership

11 mins; June 13, 2016

WS More or Less: Sexist Data Crisis

9 mins; June 10, 2016

WS More or Less: HIV in Africa

9 mins; June 03, 2016

WS More or Less: Refugee Camp Statistics

9 mins; May 27, 2016

WS More or Less: The World's Most Profitable Product

9 mins; May 20, 2016

WS More or Less: The world’s most diverse city

9 mins; May 13, 2016

WS More or Less: Leicester City football fluke?

9 mins; May 09, 2016

The most profitable product in history

27 mins; May 06, 2016

WS More or Less: Simpson’s Paradox

9 mins; May 02, 2016

EU Migration

28 mins; April 29, 2016

WS More or Less: Most Expensive Building

9 mins; April 25, 2016

Brexit numbers

27 mins; April 22, 2016

WS More or Less: The life expectancy of a Pope

9 mins; April 18, 2016

Celebrity deaths

28 mins; April 15, 2016

WS More or Less: The story of average

9 mins; April 11, 2016

Fathers and babies

27 mins; April 08, 2016

WS More or Less: The Great EU Cabbage Myth

9 mins; April 05, 2016

The Great EU Cabbage Myth

27 mins; April 04, 2016

WSMoreOrLess: Safe drinking

9 mins; March 24, 2016

WSMoreOrLess: Mobiles or lightbulbs

9 mins; March 18, 2016

WSMoreOrLess: Can we trust food surveys?

9 mins; March 11, 2016

WSMoreOrLess: Fact checking The Big Short

9 mins; March 04, 2016

WSMoreOrLess: Antibiotics and the problem of the broken market

9 mins; February 26, 2016

WSMoreOrLess: When £10,000 isn’t a good incentive

9 mins; February 19, 2016

WSMoreOrLess: Fishy numbers?

9 mins; February 15, 2016

Selfies, sugar daddies and dodgy surveys

27 mins; February 12, 2016

WSMoreOrLess: Do e-cigarettes really harm your chances of quitting smoking?

9 mins; February 08, 2016

E-cigarettes: Can They Help People Quit?

27 mins; February 05, 2016

Swedish refugees

9 mins; February 01, 2016

How harmful is alcohol?

27 mins; January 29, 2016

WSMoreOrLess: Oxfam and Wealth Inequality

9 mins; January 25, 2016

Billionaires versus the world

27 mins; January 22, 2016

WS MoreOrLess: Gravitational Waves

9 mins; January 18, 2016

Weekend Stroke Deaths

27 mins; January 15, 2016

WS MoreOrLess: Numbers of the Year 2015: Part Three

9 mins; January 11, 2016

Flood Defence Spending

24 mins; January 08, 2016

WSMoreOrLess: Numbers of the Year 2015 Part 2

9 mins; January 04, 2016

Numbers of the Year 2015

28 mins; January 01, 2016

WS MoreOrLess: Numbers of the Year 2015 Part 1

9 mins; December 25, 2015

WS MoreOrLess: How Many Stormtroopers are there?

12 mins; December 18, 2015

WS MoreOrLess:100 Year Floods?

9 mins; December 11, 2015

WS MoreOrLess: Climate Change

9 mins; December 08, 2015

WS MoreOrLess: '‘Sympathy’ for jihadis

9 mins; November 27, 2015

WS MoreOrLess: Has Islamic State been Losing Territory?

9 mins; November 20, 2015

WS MoreOrLess: Creativity and Mental Illness

9 mins; November 13, 2015

WS MoreOrLess: China's One Child Policy

9 mins; November 06, 2015

WS MoreOrLess: Processed Meat and Cancer

9 mins; October 30, 2015

WS MoreOrLess: Oil

9 mins; October 23, 2015

WS MoreOrLess: Foreign Aid: More Harm Than Good?

8 mins; October 16, 2015

WS MoreOrLess: Are Tall People More Likely to Get Cancer?

9 mins; October 09, 2015

WS MoreOrLess: Football’s Red Card Cliché

9 mins; October 02, 2015

WS MoreOrLess: How Reliable is Psychology Science?

9 mins; September 28, 2015

Alzheimers, Psychology science, John Conway, Red cards, Decimate

28 mins; September 25, 2015

WS MoreOrLess: The Rise of the Giants?

9 mins; September 21, 2015

Striking Numbers

29 mins; September 18, 2015

WS MoreOrLess: How Many is Too Many Bananas?

9 mins; September 14, 2015

Is it worth targetting non-voters?

27 mins; September 11, 2015

Queuing Backwards

8 mins; September 07, 2015

Fit for work or at deaths door?

27 mins; September 04, 2015

WS MoreOrLess: China Stock Market Crash

9 mins; August 31, 2015

China Stock Market Crash

27 mins; August 28, 2015

WS MoreOrLess: The Elliptical Pool Table

9 mins; August 24, 2015

Soaring diabetes - is there some good news?

23 mins; August 21, 2015

WS More or Less: Worm wars

9 mins; August 17, 2015

Migrant Crisis

23 mins; August 14, 2015

WS More or Less: Wrestlers - dying too young?

9 mins; August 07, 2015

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