How effective is one dose of the vaccine?
A lot has changed since More or Less was last on air. We give you a statistical picture of the...
How effective is one dose of the vaccine?
A lot has changed since More or Less was last on air. We give you a statistical picture of the...
What can ants tells us about whether something deserves to be popular? This is a question tackled...
Tim Harford asks a group of numbers-minded people to take a look back on the year and think of...
From the economic impact of Covid 19 to the number of people who have access to soap and water,...
The economics of a Covid Christmas
Tim Harford asks economist Joel Waldfogel how Covid 19 could affect spending at Christmas this...
QAnon: Child runaways and trafficking numbers debunked
Tim Harford looks at false statistical claims online about missing and trafficked children in the...
Vaccines: how safe and who gets it?
The UK has become the first country in the world to approve the use of a vaccine for Covid 19....
This year has shown us the importance of good robust data - as Covid-19 spread around the world...
If you go to a gathering of 10 or more people, what are the chances one of you has coronavirus?...
A vaccine which has shown in a clinical trial to be 90% effective against Covid 19 has been...
Tim Harford explores what we know about mortality rates in the current pandemic. We discuss the...
A headline in a British tabloid newspaper claimed that ‘Staggering 86% who tested Covid positive...
Tim Harford hears about the sheer volume of false claims made during the campaign. President...
Auction Theory - Paul Milgrom and Robert Wilson
Paul Milgrom and his former tutor Robert Wilson worked together for years developing ways to run...
A short history of probability
Tim Harford speaks to Jacob Goldstein about the unholy marriage of mathematicians, gamblers, and...
Spreadsheet snafu, ‘Long Covid’ quantified, and the birth of probability
After nearly 16,000 cases disappeared off coronaviruses spreadsheets, we ask what went wrong. How...
“Record” Covid cases, Trump on the death count, and ant pheromones
Case counts in perspective, a suspect stat from the US, and life lessons from insects.
Covid curve queried, false positives, and the Queen’s head
A scary government graph this week showed what would happen if coronavirus cases doubled every...
The magical maths of pool testing
Tim Harford speaks to Israeli researcher, Tomer Hertz, about how the mathematical magic of pool...
Covid testing capacity, refugee numbers, and mascara
Amid reports of problems with coronavirus testing across the UK, we interrogate the numbers on...