More or Less: Behind the Stats Episodes Episode guide
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Shopping, shipping and wind chill-ing
We investigate the cost of a weekly shop and explore the workings of wind chill
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Shakespeare’s maths
Author Rob Eastaway on the numbers in Shakespeare’s writing
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Shakespeare vs Rappers
It's a 'fact' beloved of English teachers around the world: that Shakespeare, the in...
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Sexual violence statistics in Asia
Almost a quarter of men in some Asian countries admit rape, it has been reported.
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Sex, coal, missing people and mice
Are we having less sex? And what happened to coal? (These items are unrelated.)
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Sex on the Brain?
Parents take note – what can numbers reveal about bringing up children? Plus, Tim if...
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Sex Every Seven Seconds
We revisit some classic topics from past years
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Sex and the world wide web
The world of porn is often exaggerated but does it really make up 37% of the web? And...
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Seven-day NHS
Tim Harford asks if people admitted to hospital at weekends are more likely to die.
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Selfies, sugar daddies and dodgy surveys
Women taking selfies for more than five hours a day and other junk adverstising surveys.
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Screening for Ebola
Are airport screenings for Ebola really an effective way of stopping transmission of a...
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Scottish referendum polls
Tim Harford talks to pollsters about how they are trying to gauge the political mood...
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Scottish Independence
On this week's More or Less: Scottish independence, mobile phones and cancer, and is...
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Scotland cases, flood risk and taxing the poor
Covid 19 cases are on the rise in Scotland, plus will your town be under water by 2030?
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Schools and coronavirus, test and trace, maths and reality
Evidence on Covid-19 risks in schools, data on contact tracing, and a philosophical query.
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School spending, excess deaths and billions of animals at Heathrow
Is school funding at record levels? Did 6.5bn creatures come to the UK by plane last year?
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School re-opening, Germany’s Covid-19 success and statistically savvy parrots
Will re-opening some schools put children or their teachers at risk?
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Same data, opposite results. Can we trust research?
Why the same data can produce different conclusions.
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Sainthood and Cup draws
Your chances of becoming a saint, plus football odds.
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Ryanair punctuality; mistakes in academic papers
Tim Harford examines Ryanair’s claim that more than 90% of its flights land on time;...
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Running at the World Cup
Is it strange that Russian football players have run such big distances?
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Rounding up the weed killer cancer conundrum
We examine the cancer-causing potential of the weed killer glyphosate
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Romanian Crime
Are the statistics put forward by UKIP accurate, and are Romanians responsible for on...
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Rising drug overdose deaths
In the US, more people are dying from drug overdoses than from road traffic accidents...
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Reoffending rates, Welsh taxes and the menopause
Tim Harford and team fact check a government claim about falling reoffending rates
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Remembering Daniel Kahneman
Tim Harford on the great social scientist, who has died at the age of 90
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Reducing your risk of death
Can running and owning a dog reduce your risk of an early death?
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Red meat death risk?
Eating an extra portion of red meat every day is associated with an increased risk of...
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Reason, numbers and Mr Spock
What role do numbers play in helping us think more rationally?
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Ranking Iceland’s Football Team
Are they the best in the world per capita?