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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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28:13

Missed appointments, graduate pay, plus cocaine on...

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2018/01/12

Did missed appointments cost the NHS £1 billion last year? New figures published recently suggest that the financial cost to the NHS for missed appointments was £1 billion last year. But our listeners are curious. How has this figure been worked out? And don’t missed appointments actually ease the pressure on an overcrowded system?Graduate pay – is it always higher than non-graduates’ pay? It is often claimed that if you go to university and get a degree, you will earn more than those who do not

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8:58

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

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2018/01/07

Why it isn’t as simple to work out as you think.

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More or Less: Statistics of the Year 2017

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2017/12/31

Phones, lawn mowers and how Kim Kardashian helped the public understanding of risk.

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9:40

WS More or Less: Will Bitcoin use more electricity...

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2017/12/24

Measuring the energy used to keep the cryptocurrency secure.

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9:43

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

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2017/12/18

Could the US President’s Diet Coke habit affect his health? and 'contained' wildfires

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WS More or Less: Does Eating Chocolate Make Your...

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2017/12/11

Headlines claim that eating chocolate can protect you from developing Alzheimer’s disease. The theory is that bioactives within chocolate called flavanols can help reduce the risk of heart attacks, strokes and even make your brain 30 years younger! But isn’t this all a bit too good to be true? The BBC’s Head of Statistics, Robert Cuffe, investigates whether research findings are misrepresented by funders, PR machines and the media. Presenter: Robert Cuffe Producer: Lizzy McNeill

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WS More or Less: Just how lucky are regular lottery...

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2017/12/04

Are some people just very lucky? The maths suggest that is unlikely.

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8:58

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

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2017/11/26

What the Pride and Prejudice character would have earned in today’s money.

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8:58

How expensive is Italy's World Cup failure?

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2017/11/17

The Italians are calling it the apocalypse. Their team has failed to make it to the World Cup for the first time in 60 years. But it is about more than just national pride - there is a financial cost too. Some have suggested that it will cost FIFA $100m. Is this really true? We speak to sports writer Graham Dunbar who has been counting how much money football's world governing body might lose out on. Also we fact check the claim that 45% of Nigerian women marry before their 18th birthday. Presenter:

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13:18

WS More or Less: Why Albums are Getting Longer

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2017/11/12

Chris Brown’s latest album is stuffed with so many songs it runs at a sprawling two hours and twenty minutes. It’s only the latest in a string of lengthy album releases that includes artists like Drake, The Weeknd and Lil B. More or Less speaks to Hugh McIntyre, a music journalist who has found out that a numerical change in the way the album charts are measured is tempting artists into making longer albums.We also talk to Marc Hogan, a senior writer at Pitchfork, about a number that is changing the

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WS More or Less: Do Nigerian lawmakers get $1.7m and...

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2017/11/05

Finding out if Nigerian politicians really get paid more than the American President.

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8:58

WS More or Less: Novelists in numbers

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2017/10/30

Counting the favourite words of well-known authors: Stephen King, Hemingway and others

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8:58

WS More or Less: Are US millennials more politically...

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2017/10/20

Did the 2016 US election galvanise young people to become more engaged in politics?

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22:17

How Richard Thaler changed Economics

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2017/10/13

The behavioural economist who has inspired governments around the world.

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8:58

WS More or Less: Kilobyte to Brontobyte

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2017/10/10

Naming the monster numbers - how the names of digital storage files evolved.

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9:12

WS More or Less: Big polluters - ships versus cars

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2017/10/02

Do the largest ships emit as much pollution as all the cars in the world?

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24:12

Uber; EU passports; counting domestic violence

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2017/09/29

Is Uber safe? The post Brexit dual nationality surge and measuring partner abuse.

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9:19

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

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2017/09/25

How much of a problem is falling sperm count?

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25:22

Statistics abuse, tuition fees and beer in 1887

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2017/09/22

Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson is accused of mis-using official statistics.

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9:37

WS More or Less: How to measure a Hurricane

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2017/09/15

What’s the best way to measure a hurricane?

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