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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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WS More or Less: The Attention Span of a Goldfish

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2017/03/10

Are our attention spans now shorter than a goldfish's?

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8:59

WS More or Less: Why are Hollywood actresses paid...

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2017/03/03

Top Hollywood actresses have complained that they are paid less than their male co-stars

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9:03

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

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2017/02/24

What happened last night in Sweden?

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9:03

Hidden Figures: The Real Story

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2017/02/17

Hidden Figures, the film, has been nominated for three awards at the Oscars and has been a box office hit in the US. It tells the little-known story of a group of African American women and their contribution to the space race in the 50s and 60s. We explore the history of how these women were recruited by Nasa and put to work on complex mathematical tasks – at a time when African Americans and women were far less likely to be employed in such jobs. (Photo: Taraji P. Henson as Katherine Johnson,in a

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WS More or Less: Hans Rosling - the extraordinary...

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2017/02/13

A huge hole was left in the world this week with the death of the Swedish statistician Han Rosling. He was a master communicator whose captivating presentations on global development were watched by millions. He had the ear of those with power and influence. His friend Bill Gates said Hans ‘brought data to life and helped the world see the human progress it often overlooked’. In a world that often looks at the bad news coming out of the developing world, Rosling was determined to spread the good

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WS More or Less: Is democracy failing in America?

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2017/02/03

Does North Carolina really rank alongside North Korea if you measure electoral integrity

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WS More or Less: Counting Crowds

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2017/01/27

How many went to celebrate – and how many to protest – the Trump inauguration?

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9:03

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

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2017/01/20

Blue Monday and Oxfam’s comparison wealth of billionaires and the poor –the stories that come around every year.

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9:02

WS More or Less: Christian Martyrs

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2017/01/13

Were 90,000 Christians killed because of their faith in 2016?

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WS More or Less: Should we really be drinking eight...

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2017/01/06

How much water should you be drinking? There’s some age-old advice that suggests you should be drinking eight ounces (230 ml) eight times a day. Some people even advise you should be drinking this on top of what you normally drink. There is lots of advice out there but how do you know when you’ve had enough or if you’re drinking too much. With help from Professor Stanley Goldfarb from the University of Pennsylvania, Wesley Stephenson finds out. (Image: Hand holding a glass of water. Credit:

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

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2017/01/03

There have been reports that those radical Swedes have decided to reduce the working day to just six hours because, it has been claimed, productivity does not suffer. Before you all rush to the Swedish job pages this is not quite the case – but there have been trials in Sweden to test whether you can shorten people’s working hours without having an effect on output. Tim Harford talks to our Swedish correspondent Keith Moore about what the trials have found. He also speaks to professor John Pencavel,

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9:24

The Haber-Bosch Process

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2016/12/28

Saving lives with thin air - by taking nitrogen from the air to make fertiliser

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9:09

WS More or Less: Life, death and data

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2016/12/26

Improving data to target help to the poorest people

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28:09

Christmas Quiz

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2016/12/23

Tim Harford poses a tough statistical challenge

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9:01

WS More or Less: Yellow cards for Christmas

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2016/12/16

Are footballers trying to get suspended for Christmas?

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23:13

Have more famous people died this year?

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2016/12/16

Notable deaths, Rule Britannia and creating your own Christmas speech

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9:16

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

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2016/12/12

We look at the numbers behind the scary headlines about birth control.

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24:01

How wrong were the Brexit forecasts?

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2016/12/09

The economic doom that never was; childhood cancer figures and Ed Balls

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9:20

WS More or Less: How not to test public opinion

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2016/12/02

The survey by the Indian PM that broke all the polling rules and started a mass protest

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23:50

Are you related to Edward III - and Danny Dyer?

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2016/12/02

What are the odds of being related to a medieval king? and how many cows for a fiver?

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