More or Less: Behind the Stats

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Reoffending rates, Welsh taxes and the menopause

The Justice Secretary Dominic Raab says crime reoffending rates in England and Wales have fallen...

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Florence Nightingale and how she visualised data

Florence Nightingale became one of the icons of Victorian Britain for her work as a nurse during...

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Nurses pay, ambulance times and forgotten female economists

How much do nurses in the UK earn compared with those elsewhere in Europe? Tim Harford and the...

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Spreadsheet disasters

The UK’s Office for National Statistics recently published some dramatically incorrect data - all...

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The IMF and the UK economy, NHS staff shortages and British vs English

The International Monetary Fund says the UK will be the only major economy to shrink in size this...

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Hannah Fry on using shopping data to detect ovarian cancer

A new study led by Imperial College in London suggests that data from loyalty card spending in...

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Brexit and trade, pensioner millionaires and Hannah Fry on loyalty cards and cancer

Has trade with the EU increased since Britain left the European Union? Tim Harford and the team...

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Are wild mammals only 4% of the mammal population?

A widely respected and cited study says humans and livestock account for 96% of all mammals on...

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Coffee with the Chancellor, inflation measures, GP numbers and toilet paper

Jeremy Hunt has pledged in a new social media video to halve the UK’s high rate of inflation. Tim...

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Does toilet paper cause 15% of global deforestation?

A British company has claimed that the production and use of toilet paper is responsible for 15%...

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Ambulance response times, teacher pay and Irish pubs

How long are people really waiting when they call 999 for an ambulance? Tim Harford and the team...

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How we shook the world of very large numbers

How did an edition of More or Less from 2017 end up influencing the choice of official names for...

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Can China's data on covid deaths be trusted?

When the pandemic took hold, the Chinese government imposed a Zero-Covid policy that aimed to...

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Irish pubs - a global numbers game

It's possible that the question we focus on in this week's programme occurred to you as you were...

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Numbers of the Year 2022

Tim Harford discusses the numbers that help explain some of the biggest stories of the year,...

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Qatar World Cup: the pressure of penalties

The World Cup in Qatar is drawing to a close. Penalties and penalty shootouts have provided some...

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Why are data so important in determining how we live?

Why are good data so important to policymakers – whether they know it or not – and what happens...

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The World Cup: how many migrant workers have died?

Qatar has been fiercely criticised over its treatment of migrant workers, many of whom have been...

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When do food shortages become a famine?

Somalia is experiencing its worst drought for 40 years and there are warnings that millions of...

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