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

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8:58

WS More or Less: Dam Lies and Statistics

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2018/12/17

Are mega-dams really sustainable?

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8:58

WS More or Less: Sex and Heart Attacks

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2018/11/30

Are women more likely to die from a heart attack than men?

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16:19

WS More or Less: Are 90% of War Fatalities Civilians?

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2018/11/23

Xavier Zapata examines what the data tells us about the deadly impact of war on civilians

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9:04

WS More or Less: When’s a Kilogram Not a Kilogram?

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2018/11/16

Updating the kilogram.

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8:58

WS More or Less: Do Assassinations Work?

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2018/11/09

How likely are assassination attempts on heads of state to succeed?

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11:10

WS More or Less: Vaccines - The importance of the...

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2018/10/28

What proportion of a population needs to be vaccinated to stop a disease spreading?

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8:58

WS More or Less: Foreign Aid: Who’s the most generous?

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2018/10/19

In foreign aid terms what’s the best way of measuring how generous a country is?

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9:04

WS More or Less: Paul Romer and William Nordhaus’ Big...

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2018/10/12

The economists tackling climate change and growth.

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9:40

Loneliness, School Funding, Same-Sex Divorce

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2018/10/09

New figures reveal that same-sex divorce rates are much higher among women than among men. The pattern is the same in Belgium, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden and the UK. Everywhere where there are statistics on same-sex divorce it is the same sex doing the bulk of the divorcing. Tim Harford discusses why this may be with Marina Ashdade, economist at Canada’s Vancouver School of Economics and author of Dirty Money, a book which applies economic ideas to the study of sex and love. Producer: Ruth

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WS More or Less: Why are Lesbians More Likely to...

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2018/10/07

New figures reveal that same-sex divorce rates are much higher among women than among men. The pattern is the same in Belgium, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden and the UK. Everywhere where there are statistics on same-sex divorce it is the same sex doing the bulk of the divorcing. Tim Harford discusses why this may be with Marina Ashdade, economist at Canada’s Vancouver School of Economics and author of “Dirty Money”, a book which applies economic ideas to the study of sex and love. Producer: Ruth

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Loneliness; School Funding; Same-Sex Divorce.

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2018/10/05

This week BBC Radio 4’s All in the Mind programme announced the results of The Loneliness Experiment. It was a large survey conducted by the programme in collaboration with the Wellcome Collection. The largest survey into the issue of loneliness to date, said All in the Mind, while the accompanying BBC press release reported that “The survey results indicate that 16-24 year olds experience loneliness more often and more intensely than any other age group. 40% of respondents aged 16-24 reported

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9:06

WS More of Less: Surviving the Battle of Britain

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2018/10/01

Were Spitfire pilots killed after an average of four weeks in the World War Two battle?

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Surviving the Battle of Britain; the World Cup and...

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2018/09/28

Tim Harford on Spitfire pilots, and whether football triggers violence in the home.

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8:58

WS More or Less: Trump and the Puerto Rico Death Toll

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2018/09/24

How can we calculate excess mortality after a natural disaster?

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25:22

How Many Schoolchildren are Carers? Shareholder...

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2018/09/21

Tim Harford on child carers, shareholder income, football vs museums and dangerous sports

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9:11

WS More or Less: DNA - Are You More Chimp or...

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2018/09/17

What is the difference between 96% similarity or sharing 20% of our DNA?

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24:42

Male suicide, school ratings, are female tennis...

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2018/09/14

Tim Harford with statistics on suicide, good schools and sexism in tennis. Plus goats

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9:08

WS More or Less: The Safest Car in the World?

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2018/09/10

A listener asks whether his Volvo is the safest car on the road?

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23:41

Heart Age Calculator; Danish Sperm Imports; Counting...

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2018/09/07

Tim Harford questions the usefulness of a popular heart age calculator.

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8:58

WS: More or Less - How well do you understand your...

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2018/09/03

Tim Harford talks to Bobby Duffy about why we are often wrong about a lot of basic facts

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